Michael Franti Quotes

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

There are many things that I don't understand.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

The more I know, the less I understand

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

My ignorance is widespread.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'