John Denham Quotes

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.