The learned man knows that he is ignorant.


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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO
Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO
La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO
N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO]
L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO
The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO
No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO
Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO
Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO
While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO
A victor knows that problems exist but he does not isolate himself from them
SUNDAY ADELAJA
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very prof...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
“He who believes is ignorant. He who knows is knowledgeable. And he who asks is the smartest”
SHAHAF YEFET
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO
Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.
CLEO MOORE
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
LAO TZU
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
A learned person is not learned in everything; but the capable person is capable in everything, even...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO
Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
RUDYARD KIPLING
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not...
CONFUCIUS
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows tha...
ARAB PROVERB
Oscar meet Victor. Victor this is Oscar. And may the best man win." - Dead Editor File
G.G. COLLINS
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more
ALEXANDER POPE
The only difference between a man and god is that man knows nothing but pretends as if he knows ever...
ANURAAG
Victor really respects the game. He knows that it's a long haul. We always felt like he was going to...
ERIC WEDGE
During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO
Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ig...
SAADI
Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he kn...
SHAFTESBURY
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, th...
JOYCE CARY
A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...
LAO TZU
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
CESARE LOMBROSO
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he kn...
MARTIN LUTHER
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know -- the less a man knows, the mor...
JOYCE CARY
The only thing worse than an ignorant man is an ignorant man with a bible.
UNKNOWN
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS
We can learn from their heartache just as they learned from ours in Hugo.
CATHY HAYNES
I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ...
VICTOR HUGO
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
MOLI
A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One m...
MARK TWAIN
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIèRE
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE
An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still i...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
No man knows he is young while he is young.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
No man knows he is young while he is young.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as...
BRIAN SELZNICK
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t i...
MARK TWAIN
He (Hugo) has certainly generated some publicity. He is who he is. He's likable and charismatic.
DEMETRIUS FANNICK
A man is but what he knows.
FRANCIS BACON
He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its fi...
CRISS JAMI
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it o...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows no...
PROVERB
To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
VICTOR HUGO
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. W...
ANNA LEE
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too litt...
MARK TWAIN
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too lit...
MARK TWAIN
Clyde is a hard-working young man. He has the will to win. He never wants to lose. Victor settled in...
CHAD JACKSON
He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows ...
PERSIAN PROVERB
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school...
ALLAN BLOOM
He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and knows h...
BRUCE LEE
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is ...
ERICH FROMM
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows...
MARK TWAIN
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which...
ROBERT BLY
Blind is the man who thinks he knows it all. Blinder is the man who follows after this man blindly.
TRAVIS J HEDRICK
He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and he know...
BRUCE LEE
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON
Victor wouldn't be Victor if he told you what was in it. He assured me no steroid was involved.
TIM MONTGOMERY
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
ANDRE MALRAUX
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is goin...
NAPOLEON HILL
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person ...
ABU BAKR
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
C.S. LEWIS
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoun...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO