John Darnielle Quotes

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

… a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

We can't all wake up and know everything.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

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

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.