Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

I'm not very wise to many things.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.