“It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 11
“It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
“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.
“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 519.
Maxim no .1.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Context: Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. For knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.
“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
William Scott Wilson, Gregory Lee. Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors, 1982. p 95
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 117
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”