Lord Byron Quotes

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our 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 know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Sometimes there are no answers.

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

The more I know, the less I understand

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Science is uncertain.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.