Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

How little we know of what there is to know.

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

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

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

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

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I'm not very wise to many things.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.