All humans are stupid, but the smarter ones at least have a handle on their own ignorance.
Knowledge Quotes
Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, John Locke, Samuel Johnson and Einstein are all near the top, which gives the page its character: mostly people who thought about how we know things, rather than about how to feel clever. Johnson gives the most useful single line, in Boswell’s Life (1791): “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Wittgenstein, in On Certainty (1969), says that knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
A lot of the quotes people look for here are flagged. “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” is credited to Socrates; see the note on the Wisdom page. “Contempt prior to investigation” is credited to Einstein, and a line about putting the Lord at every turn in the refuge of a miracle is credited to Galileo.
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
Cold calculated awareness that their power lay in keeping the people in ignorance.
Knowledge might not be power, but ignorance was definitely weakness, and so was poverty.
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Mother, here is Thy knowledge and here is Thy ignorance. Take them both, and give me only pure love.
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.