Japanese Proverb Quotes

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

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

No one who lives in error is free.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

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.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Error is always more busy than truth.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.