Allen Ginsberg Quotes

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The more I know, the less I understand

The more I see, the less I know.

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

With knowledge grows doubt.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Doubt grows with 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've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

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.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

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

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.