Rene Descartes Quotes

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

By leaving a student to himself he may... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least have this advantage: it will discover to himself his own deficiencies and this discovery alone is a very considerable acquisition.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.