Mason Cooley Quotes

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

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

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

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