D. H. Lawrence Quotes

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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

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.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Who knows most, doubts most.

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.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

You only know what you know.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.