Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

Flight without feathers is not easy.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Who knows most, doubts most.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

I'm like the only Kiwi that can fly, I'm the one with the biggest wing.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.