Thomas Sowell Quotes

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

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

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

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.

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.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

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

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

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.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Who knows most, doubts most.

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.