Ornette Coleman Quotes

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

I always want to know about things.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

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

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

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

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