An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.