Dean Koontz Quotes

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

One cannot know everything.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

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

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

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

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

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.

Who knows most, doubts most.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

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

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.

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

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.