Marguerite Duras Quotes

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

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

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

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Who knows most, doubts most.

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

The more we learn the more we realize how little we 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.

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

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

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

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.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I'm not very wise to many things.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.