Pankaj Mishra Quotes

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

We never knew how much we did not know.

From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

I know what I do not know.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

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

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

I don't know nothing about nothing.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

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

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

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

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

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.