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Intellectual humility Quotes

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

"The wise man does not believe in absolute certainty"

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"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"

"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong"

"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud"

"Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question"

"Some people will never learn anything for this reason because they understand everything too soon"

"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"

"Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant"

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom"

"In forming an opinion, lay your reason open to all who think they have judgment"