Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

… a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

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

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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.

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

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

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

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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

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.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

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

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.