Elbert Hubbard Quotes

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

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

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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