Moby Quotes

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

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

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

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I know that I don’t know.

My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

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.

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

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

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

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

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

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

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.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Fundamentally, I have no idea how the world works, though I am trying to figure it out.