Bob Hawke Quotes

We never knew how much we did not 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.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

I'm giving a lot of opinions, but I don't give any advice. I'm 31 and I'm not married and having kids. I'm five-foot-three. I weigh, like, 150 pounds and I'm not in this position to be telling people how to live.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

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

I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.

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.

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

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why.

In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.

It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

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.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.