Eric Williams Quotes

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

I think we all have a need to know what we do not need to know.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

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.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

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

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

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.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.