Olin Miller Quotes

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The more I see, the less I know.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

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

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.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

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

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

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Ignorance never settles a question.

I know everything that's out there that's worth knowing about.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.