Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Even when it comes to notable events, we are in the dark.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

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

I don't really know much about cars.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

We never knew how much we did not know.

I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it.

I really don't know anything about music.

I don't know a lot about politics.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.

I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

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

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

I don't even know who Joey Barton is.