Robert Jordan Quotes

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

Let your tongue become accustomed to the words “I do not know”.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

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.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Who knows most, doubts most.

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.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

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

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

No one is wise at all times.