“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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Knowledge And Ignorance Quotes
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Source: Asimov's New guide to science
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
Source: Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
Source: Thoughts
“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
Source: Table-talk
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“There is nothing higher than reason.”
Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason
Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution
“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”