Paul A. Volcker Quotes

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

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

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

The more I see, the less I know.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

I'm not very wise to many things.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.