Quotes About Ignorance

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.