Helena Blavatsky Quotes

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

Enough to know no knowing.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?