Will Durant Quotes

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

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

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.