Garry Winogrand Quotes

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Intelligence always carries uncertainties. That is the nature of the beast.

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

I can't predict the future.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you possibly can and just fill your vocabulary and your brain with as much as humanly possible.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.