Andrew W.K. Quotes

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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

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

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.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

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

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

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.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

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

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

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

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.