Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

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

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

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

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

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

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.