Alan Ball Quotes

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.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

There are many things that I don't understand.

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.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human folly. And sometimes I am not sure about the universe.

One of my bywords is that nobody knows anything, including me.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

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

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.

With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.