Martin Freeman Quotes

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

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.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

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

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

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

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

I know what I do not know.

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

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.