What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose, ce que nous ignorons est immense.

Por vezes sentimos que aquilo que fazemos não é senão uma gota de água no oceano. Mas o oceano seria menor se lhe faltasse uma gota.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

En una gota de agua se encuentran todos los secretos de todos los océanos. KAHLIL GIBRAN, POETA

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

If a fish in the ocean is what we do know, then the entire ocean is what we don’t. The universe is always going to remain the largest mystery.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As the island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

..the flat surface of a perfectly calm ocean [which] disturbs us.. ..by all the unknown that is hidden in the depth.

IGNORANCE

I didn’t know love would make me this
crazy, with my eyes
like the river Ceyhun
carrying me in its rapids
out to sea,where every bit
of shattered boat
sinks to the bottom.

An alligator lifts its head and swallows
the ocean, then the ocean
floor becomes
a desert covering
the alligator in
sand drifts.

Changes do
happen. I do not know how,
or what remains of what
has disappeared
into the absolute.

I hear so many stories
and explanations, but I keep quiet,
because I don’t know anything,
and because something I swallowed
in the ocean
has made me completely content
with ignorance.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.