Julia Child Quotes

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

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

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

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

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have 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.

You're never going to learn everything.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

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

No one is wise at all times.

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

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

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

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

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

I don't know anything and neither do you.