The wisdom which knows what are and are not dangers is opposed to the ignorance of them
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.
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Dejan Stojanović: Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Racial ignorance is a prison from which there is no escape because there’re no doors.
I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.
The current social system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.
It is not the ignorance of a child, but the dementia of an old man, who had great [yes!] culture.