Rafael Sabatini Quotes

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

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

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

I'm poor, not homeless.