Robert Jordan Quotes

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

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

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

When you show people good information, they make good decisions.

The first general duty of princes is carefully to inform themselves of every thing, that falls under the complete discharge of their trust; for a person cannot well acquit himself in that, which he has not first rightly learnt.

It is better to be ignorant than to half know something.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

We have to know before we can act.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?