Intellectual Humility Quotes

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." "I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong" "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong" "The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom" "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality" "Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant" "Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question" "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "Some people will never learn anything for this reason because they understand everything too soon" "The wise man does not believe in absolute certainty" "In forming an opinion, lay your reason open to all who think they have judgment"