Knowledge Paradox Quotes

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

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

The more I know, the less I understand

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.