Grace Paley Quotes

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

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

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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.

Who knows most, doubts most.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

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.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did