David Maraniss Quotes

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

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

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.