Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.