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Category: Knowledge, Ignorance

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1. "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."

Audre Lorde

2. "Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."

Confucius

3. "Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."

Henri Poincare, "The Foundations of Science"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

4. "God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk."

Arabic proverb

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Work and Laziness

5. "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge."

Charles Spurgeon

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

6. "Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

William Cowper

7. "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

Dwight David Eisenhower

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

8. "We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and"."

Arthur Stanley Eddington

Quotations about: Various

9. "An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."

Edward de Bono

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

10. "Life is only error,
And death is knowledge."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Cassandra"

Quotations about: Life and Death

11. "Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily."

Anon.

Quotations about: Education

12. "The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

Cesare Lombroso

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

13. "Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."

Anthony de Mello

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

14. "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. "

Thomas Alva Edison

15. "Knowledge is power, knowledge shared is power lost."

Aleister Crowley

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

16. "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

17. "Knowledge that stops at what it does not know is perfect."

Zhuang Zi

18. "What you don't know would make a great book."

Sydney Smith

19. "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

Carl Sagan

Quotations about: Science and Technology

20. "What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?"

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

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21. "Error is the price we pay for progress."

Alfred North Whitehead

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

22. "Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."

Claus Moser

Quotations about: Education

23. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Stephen Hawking

24. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men."

Saadi

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

25. "Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge."

Holbrook Jackson, "Anatomy of Bibliomania"

26. "A library is thought in cold storage."

Lord Samuel

27. "The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Sir William Osler

Quotations about: Various

28. "Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

Samuel Johnson

29. "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket"

Quotations about: Justice -:- Power and Weakness

30. "My speciality is being right when other people are wrong."

George Bernard Shaw, "You Never Can Tell"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

31. "He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

George Bernard Shaw, "Major Barbara"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

32. "Doubt is the key of knowledge."

English proverb

33. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King, "Strength to Love"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

34. "Experience without learning is better than learning without experience."

English proverb

Quotations about: Education

35. "Action is the proper fruit of knowledge."

English proverb

36. "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

37. "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."

Confucius, "The Confucian Analects"

38. "Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

Karl Popper

40. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

41. "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Henrieta Temple"

Quotations about: Love

42. "Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

43. "The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men."

William Hazlitt

44. "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."

Albert Einstein

45. "Stupidity is permanent; ignorance can be fixed."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

46. "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Lectures and Biographical Sketches"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

47. "Information is knowledge, knowledge is influence, influence is power."

Anon.

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

48. "Knowledge is knowing something. Wisdom is knowing what to do with that knowledge."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

49. "To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

50. "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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