Knowledge Ignorance Quotes

Knowledge Ignorance Quote of the day

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

Information is bad for knowledge.

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.