Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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

I know that I don’t know.

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

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proved.

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.