George MacDonald Quotes

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

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

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

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

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Who knows most, doubts most.

I know that I don’t know.

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

I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.