Jodi Picoult Quotes

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

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

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

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

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

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

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.