Quotes About Ignorance

Valkyrie was thankful Fletcher was around. Finally, somebody who knew even less than she did.

General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Know what you do not know.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.