Knowing Nothing Quotations

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.