Francesco Marla Pompeo Colonna Quotes

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.

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

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human folly. And sometimes I am not sure about the universe.

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

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

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

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

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.