A Quote by Victor Hugo

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
French - Novelist
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Isabel Allende

A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt; the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.

Jean de la Bruyere

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

Jean de la Bruyere

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Ibn Khaldun

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one

Swami Vivekananda

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

Wilhelm Reich

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Aristotle

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

R. Scott Bakker

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

Alfred the Great

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.

Daniel Dennett

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Saadi

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Henry David Thoreau

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