Quote by Victor Hugo

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Summary

This quote implies that a truly knowledgeable person is aware of their own limitations and recognizes the vastness of knowledge yet to be acquired. Instead of feeling superior or overconfident about their knowledge, they humbly acknowledge the vast expanse of the unknown. This quote emphasizes the importance of humility in the pursuit of knowledge and suggests that possessing true wisdom involves accepting one's own ignorance. It encourages a constant thirst for learning and growth, acknowledging that the more one learns, the more they realize there is still so much more to discover.

Topics

Man

By Victor Hugo

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much b

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

William Shakespeare

Murder

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart ke

My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely swung. An epic of the eyes My love, with no disguise.

Theodore Roethke

Love Door

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.

Science Mathematics Rocket Science

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

Life Bravery Inspirational

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Luck

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was goin

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Something to remember... You only get one chance to grow and

Something to remember... You only get one chance to grow and live, so make it Beautiful!

Sierra Lawrimore

Life Beauty Love Inspirational Growth

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Jeanette Winterson

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifl

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

Best

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, se

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

Space

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.