Aleister Crowley Quotes

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

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

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

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

The more I see, the less I know.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

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

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

I'm not very wise to many things.