Phil Crosby Quotes

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

We never know what we are talking about.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

I know what I do not know.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

You only know what you know.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.