Quotes About Ignorance

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.