Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

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

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

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.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Enough to know no knowing.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

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

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

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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.

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.