Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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.

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

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something 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.

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.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

How did they know?.

My ignorance is widespread.

I always want to know about things.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

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

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

The more I see, the less I know.

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

I know too much and not enough