... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.
Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?
