Jandy Nelson Quotes

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

I know that I don’t know.

I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.