Eric Hoffer Quotes

The more I see, the less I know.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There are many things that I don't understand.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have 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.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

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

Ignorance never settles a question.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

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

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

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

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.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.