Max Planck Quotes

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

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

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

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.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.