Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

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

I longed to know the world's name.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.