Bill Hader Quotes

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

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

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

The more I see, the less I know.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

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

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

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

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

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

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.