Bill Bryson Quotes

You only know what you know.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

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.

The more I see, the less I know.

I know that I don’t know.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

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.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I'm not very wise to many things.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

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