Jostein Gaarder Quotes

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I know that I don’t know.

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.