Samuel Beckett Quotes

The world is not always ours to understand.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

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.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.