Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Are you who I think you are?

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

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

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I always want to know about things.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

The more I see, the less I know.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I think we all have a need to know what we do not need to know.

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

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.