David Almond Quotes

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

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.

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.

We are all ignorant, just about different things.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

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

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

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.

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

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.