Alice Walker Quotes

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation 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.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

Who knows most, doubts most.

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

I just want people to be able to put on 'American Boyfriend' and accept to not know. To not know anything about everything.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

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.

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

The only thing that I'm sure of is I don't know, but I know that positivity works.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.