We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
In plain words
Nobody knows more than a tiny sliver about anything.
Where these words come from
- 55% sureLots of sources credit Thomas Edison with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Wikiquote-sourced to Golden Book magazine (April 1931), via Stevenson's Book of Quotations (1938); the original 1931 issue was not independently verified, held at likely.
- Golden Book magazine
- 1931
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Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
PlatoI don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
Sor Juana Inés de la CruzThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William ShakespeareWe live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.
Louisa May AlcottThese are times in which a genius would wish to live.
Abigail AdamsPhilosophy is the microscope of the thought.
Victor Hugo
PlatoI don't study to know more, but to ignore less.Sor Juana Inés de la CruzThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William ShakespeareWe live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.Louisa May AlcottThese are times in which a genius would wish to live.Abigail AdamsPhilosophy is the microscope of the thought.Victor Hugo