Theodore Dreiser Quotes

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

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

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

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

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

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

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