Wendell Berry Quotes

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

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

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

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

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

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.