“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.” KnowsWorldYearsMindHumansHas BeensMomentsLastsLife IsSpiritCertainEnergyGivenCausesMy OwnVirtueIgnoranceRegretConsciousNobleLiberationUselessHuman MindDedicatedInertiaTimidityPrecious GiftsNoble Causes Author:Maya Angelou
“I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.” KnowsMy OwnIgnoranceCertainty Author:Socrates
“I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.” WritingWellsRealWantedFoundMy OwnBoysTalentIgnoranceAverageOutcomesDriversBusUnlikelyDiscouragementHoeReal TalentBus Driver Author:Garrison Keillor
“I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.” IfsShouldDesireWishMy OwnLandIgnoranceReturnTravelAnd LoveNativeSomedayShoreNative Land Book:Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles Source: Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance” FoundMy OwnEffortDoubtEffectsIgnoranceDiscoveryErrorsEmbarrassed Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations
“I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.” MenBelieveMaySufferingBeliefI BelieveMy OwnViewsProduceIgnorance Author:William Golding
“I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” I CanRealityReligionUniverseLanguageMy OwnKnowledgeDoubtImagineIgnoranceLimitsEnvironmentalNo DoubtSurprisingSuspicion Author:John B. S. Haldane
“I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?” KnowsMy OwnImagineIgnoranceEconomicsNot SureImagine That Author:Jorge Luis Borges