Charles Osgood Quotes

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

We can't all wake up and know everything.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

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

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

You only know what you know.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.