Jane Rule Quotes

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

Nobody ever learns anything.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

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

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.