Translations
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything;Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and dull with regard to externals. Do not desire to be thought to know anything;Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
If you would improve, submit to be considered without sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing:George Long (1890)
If you wish to make progress, you must be content in external matters to seem a fool and a simpleton; do not wish men to think you know anything,Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)