“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
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“And still, the more he learned, the more he became aware that he did not know.”
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 313
“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”
Widely attributed to Catherine II online, this has been attributed to Confucius in published books, but no print sources attribute this to Catherine.
Misattributed
“Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
Vol. 1, letter 11.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Context: Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
“The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 116
“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 92.
Context: Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
