“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
“A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.”
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Source: Asimov's New guide to science
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.”
Source: So human
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
Source: To Jerusalem and Back
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.”