Awkward Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be…

— Lord Chesterfield

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Paul the Apostle

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which…

— Henry David Thoreau

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

— Max Heindel

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

— Malcolm Forbes

“A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and…

— Wu Wei

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

— Laurence J. Peter

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson