H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

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

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

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.

Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

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

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.