Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

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

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

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

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.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

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.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

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.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.