David Byrne Quotes

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

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

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

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

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

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.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.