Sam Keen Quotes

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

I don't pretend I know everything.

It's not like I have all the answers.

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

I do not know it all and do not claim to.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

It would not be wise for us to say we know what we don't know.

Learn to say, “I don’t know.”

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.

I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

I think it's very important to keep in the back of your mind: 'What if I'm wrong?'

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.