Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

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

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my 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.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Who knows most, doubts most.

… a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

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

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.