We know hardly anything about anything.

We know no more than the ancients; we only know other things, but nothing in which is an assurance of perpetuity, and little that is truly wisdom.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

« You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

Have read little and understood less.

I only know that I know nothing

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know.