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Quotes About Ignorance

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.
~ John Newlove
Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.
~ Brian Spellman
I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
~ Juana Inés de la Cruz
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
~ Coretta Scott King
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
~ Socrates
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
~ Alexander Pope
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
~ Umar
To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.
~ Tom Spanbauer
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
~ Karl Popper
By ignorance the truth is known.
~ Henry Suso
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
~ Malcolm X
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
~ Mary McCarthy
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
~ Plato
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
~ Thomas More
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
~ Bayard Taylor
It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.
~ Demetri Martin
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
~ Laozi
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
~ Dan Brown
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
~ D.B.C. Pierre
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
~ Allan Bloom
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
~ John Berger
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
~ Voltaire, Candide