Herman Melville Quotes

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

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.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

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.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

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