The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be…

What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human; that it is mixed with our errors,…

Although I consider our political world to be the best of which we have any historical knowledge, we should beware of attributing this fact to democracy or to …

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.