A Quote by Louis L'Amour

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Louis L'Amour

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Appreciate Fully His Ignorance Learned Much Only

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Louis L'Amour
American - Novelist
March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988

Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.

Nicholas of Cusa

I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.

Richard M. DeVos

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

Margaret Truman

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

Wallace Stegner

I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

Harry West

How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

Ally Condie

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

Plautus

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.

Howard Gardner

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

Anna Sewell

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

Martin Delany

Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

Erwin W. Lutzer

What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.

Bob Goff

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.