Acknowledging Limitations Quotes

Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

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

Learn to say, “I don’t know.”

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

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

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

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

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

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

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

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.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

I know what I do not know.