Suzy Kassem Quotes

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

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

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

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

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 small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

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.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

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

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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