Laurence J. Peter Quotes

You only know what you know.

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

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

We are wiser than we know.

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

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

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

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

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

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I'm not very wise to many things.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

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.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.