“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.”
What this quote means
This quote warns against intellectual pride. It compares excessive pride in one's knowledge to a light so dazzling that it blinds us. When we believe we know everything, we close the door to learning and questioning. This attitude prevents us from seeing our own limits and opening to other perspectives. It invites us to humility, for true knowledge recognizes its own gaps.
How to apply it daily
Identify an area where you feel like an expert and actively seek an opinion contrary to yours.
Continue
Related quotes
Same author or same theme — keep reading.
“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would wither.”Create visual
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question is a fool forever. O-# It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”Create visual
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”Create visual
“As a rule, he or she that has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”Create visual
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.”Create visual
“Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.”Create visual
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”Create visual
“Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.”Create visual
“Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.”Create visual
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”Create visual