Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

I know nothing and my heart aches

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye.

Don't ask me, I don't know

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

I don't know. I've never been on second before.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

Lack of understanding is always painful.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.