William Saroyan Quotes

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I'm not very wise to many things.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

I know what I do not know.

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

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

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

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

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

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

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