Sam Harris Quotes

Nobody ever learns anything.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

If you don't educate yourself, this is an area of your life that it is a game.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

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

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

The way is in training.

Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.