Orson Scott Card Quotes

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

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Who knows most, doubts most.

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.