Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

I don't know anything and neither do you.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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.

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

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

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

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

There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.