Haruki Murakami Quotes

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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.

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

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Days should speak, and multitudes of years should teach wisdom.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

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