Attain Quote by William Alexander

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

— Anonymous

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

— Quintilian

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

— John Milton

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

— Cyril Connolly

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works,…

— Thomas Reid

“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital…

— Paula Brackston

“In the case of seeking knowledge, don't do it to brag and don't give up because you think you are not worthy of becoming…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble…

— Thomas à Kempis

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

— Matthew Henry

Indulging the consciousness of being good is the way to lose that goodness; being vain of one's ability is the way to lose it.

— Anonymous

Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the…

— Galileo Galilei

If you want to be great, you will need to look in the mirror at some point and acknowledge you are more than what…

— Germaine Moody