Ray Bradbury Quotes

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

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

Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning, and you are well on the way to achievement. True greatness is reflective, not assertive.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

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.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.