Ray Dalio Quotes

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Who knows most, doubts most.

I know that I don’t know.

I always admired Niels Bohr for uttering his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one in the possession of definite truth.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

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

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.