Gertrude Stein Quotes

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

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

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

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

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I'm not very wise to many things.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.