Will Oldham Quotes

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

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

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

What can we say with certainty?

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.