Tad Williams Quotes

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing you have to keep embracing. You have to keep saying, I actually don't know, and going out is going to tell me something every time.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

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

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. So many people seem to go about their life's business with their eyes shut. Indeed, they object to other people keeping their eyes open. Unable to play themselves, they dislike the play of others.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.