Tag Archive for: humility

"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."

Laurence J. Peter

"Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities."

Ludwig von Mises

"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."

Laurence J. Peter

"We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success."

Karl Popper

"People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense."

Ben Carson

"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance."

Nikola Tesla

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."

Alan Kay

"You must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts your beliefs, and admit the possibility that you may be wrong.

Intelligence isn’t knowing everything, it’s the ability to challenge everything you know."

Unbekannt

"To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far."

Jean Cocteau

"The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Compassion simply suits us all better."

Vegane Weisheiten

"Compassion simply suits us all better."

Vegane Weisheiten

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

George Bernard Shaw

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

Henry Ford

"Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles."

Walter Cronkite

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."

Albert Einstein

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

Robert G. Ingersoll