R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

It is not possible to know what you need to learn.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

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

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.