John Ruskin Quotes

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

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

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

Who knows most, doubts most.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

I know too much and not enough

The more I know, the less I understand

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

With knowledge grows doubt.