Charlie Munger Quotes

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

It would not be wise for us to say we know what we don't know.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Learn to say, “I don’t know.”

I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth