Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

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

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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

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

Who knows most, doubts most.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

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.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

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

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

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