Lisa Gardner Quotes

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.