Rebecca Solnit Quotes

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

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

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

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

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Who knows most, doubts most.