Michel de Montaigne Quotes

The more I see, the less I know.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

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

There are many things that I don't understand.

No one knows anything for sure.

The more I know, the less I understand

With knowledge comes more doubt.

With knowledge grows doubt.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

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

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

I know too much and not enough

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.