Steven Millhauser Quotes

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

No one knows anything for sure.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Don't ask me, I don't know

I don't know anything and neither do you.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

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.

We do not know. We can only guess.

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

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.

Nobody knows anything.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

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.

I can't predict the future.