The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
I know that I know nothing.
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
The best leader is one whose existence is barely known. When their work is done, the people say: we did it ourselves.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.
The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
I am still learning.
Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
We by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people - we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst.
With Breaking Bad I feel like I pulled the lever at the slot machine, and it came up cherries.
Only a few know how much one must know to know how little one knows.
The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by the experts.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
Being wrong is the only way I feel sure I've learned anything.
Argue like you're right and listen like you're wrong.
The outsiders were not charismatic, media-seeking CEOs. They were quiet, analytical, and often deliberately invisible.
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.
