Blaise Pascal Quotes

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

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

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

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

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.