Karl Popper Quotes

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

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

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

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.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

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

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

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

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

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

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

Fear always springs from ignorance.