Allan Holdsworth Quotes

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

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.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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.

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

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

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

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

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

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

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

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

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.