Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

One of my bywords is that nobody knows anything, including me.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.