Errol Morris Quotes

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 “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

I think, therefore I am confused.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

We never know what we are talking about.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

Fundamentally, I have no idea how the world works, though I am trying to figure it out.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

The more I see, the less I know.

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

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.