Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

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.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

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

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.