A Quote by Dave Eggers

I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.

Dave Eggers

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Dave Eggers
American - Writer
Born: March 12, 1970

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Padgett Powell

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

John Owen

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

John Owen

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.

Mark Lanegan

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

Octavia Butler

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

A. Ray Olpin

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

Paul Haggis

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.

Virginia Madsen

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

Anthony Hopkins

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Sidney Poitier

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Richard Rogers

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

R. D. Laing

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Oscar Wilde

I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

Phil Keoghan

I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

Reese Witherspoon

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