Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

To rule by knowledge ravages the country.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.

Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.