Donald Knuth Quotes

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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.

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

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

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