Saint Augustine Quotes

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The more I see, the less I know.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

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

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.