Barry Trotz Quotes

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

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

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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 realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

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.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

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