Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.