Philip Pullman Quotes

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

I'm not very wise to many things.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

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

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

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

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

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Who knows most, doubts most.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

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

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

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