» Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generatoradd quote of the day, random quotes or by topic (e.g. funny quotes) Quote DB :: Authors :: Laurence Peter :: View Quote View Quote "A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know." - Copy to Clipboard -- Laurence Peter Listed in: Education Add Quote To Your Quote List Rating: 5 Rate Quote 11 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Top 5 quotes from Laurence Peter "Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." "The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance." "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it." "There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." Top 5 quotes from Education "Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company." "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." "A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know." "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." "The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."