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- Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. -- Plato
- On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. -- Frederick Soddy
- Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. -- Vera Farmiga
- There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span. -- Henry David Thoreau
- An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
- An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
- Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. -- Thucydides
- The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. -- Herodotus
- Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. -- William Penn
- True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. -- Elbert Hubbard
- There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. -- Hippocrates
- The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce
- Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. -- Baltasar Gracian
- Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. -- William Ellery Channing
- I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. -- Khalil Gibran
- Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- James Madison
- It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. -- Jeremy Taylor
- Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. -- Paul Davies
- Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt. -- Rosemary Mahoney
- All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. -- Maria Monk
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. -- Isaac Asimov
- Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity. -- Ramakrishna
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. -- Charles Darwin
- The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge. -- David Storey
- Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. -- Luc de Clapiers
- To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning. -- Tom Spanbauer
- Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. -- Hippocrates
- Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. -- James Madison
- Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge... -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. -- Horace
- Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied. -- Norm MacDonald
- Ignorance is never better than knowledge -- Enrico Fermi
- Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life. -- Swami Vivekananda
- Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery -- Miles Davis
- Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness. -- Laozi
- His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish. -- KRS-One
- The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout. -- Arturo Graf
- Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance. -- David Gross
- Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science. -- George Bernard Shaw
- The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially. -- Marshall McLuhan
- All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. -- T. S. Eliot
- A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge. -- Plato
- Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime. -- Thomas Paine
- IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE -- Charleston Parker
- Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. -- Ian Hacking
- Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ... -- Socrates
- The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. -- John F. Kennedy
- Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. -- Hippocrates
- Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. -- George Bernard Shaw
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -- Confucius
- There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance. -- Ali
- It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. -- Arnold H. Glasow
- To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge. -- Laozi
- I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance. -- David Ogilvy
- The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance. -- Joseph Delaney
- Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. -- Sam Harris
- The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next. -- Frances Wright
- How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame? -- Rosamond Lehmann
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. -- Alfred North Whitehead
- Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. -- George Eliot
- The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud. -- Jean Baudrillard
- Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. -- Robert Kiyosaki
- Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. -- Walker Percy
- Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. -- Robert Quillen
- It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
- Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance. -- Elif Safak
- Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present. -- Samuel Johnson
- Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. -- Will Durant
- Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. -- Ambrose Bierce
- As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience. -- Howard G. Hendricks
- Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. -- Karl Popper
- It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -- Thomas Sowell
- All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. -- Geoff Dyer
- The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. -- Henry Miller
- The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. -- Max Heindel
- It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing. -- Jerry Uelsmann
- Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. -- Abraham Verghese
- True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. -- Karl Popper
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Stephen Hawking
- I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities. -- Alice Walker
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. -- Benjamin Franklin
- Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto -- Laurell K. Hamilton
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
- In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. -- William Shakespeare
- It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge. -- Frank Herbert
- He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. -- Richard Whately
- Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. -- William Shakespeare
- The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance. -- Wendell Berry
- The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. -- Aldous Huxley
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. -- Isaac Asimov
- Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge. -- Kedar Joshi
- Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. -- Ambrose Bierce
- There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. -- Hippocrates
- There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. -- Hippocrates
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Socrates
- Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
- There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance. -- Aristotle
- But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance. -- Sheryl Sandberg
- The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. -- Isaac Asimov
- The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. -- John Fowles
- I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence. -- tsegaye gebre medhin
- Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die. -- Sivananda
- Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosityâ??even if it had killed the catâ??is king. -- Kim Harrison
- People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
- Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
- Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance. -- Umar
- Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery -- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. -- Isaac Asimov
- I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. -- Mark Twain
- Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. -- Jane Rule
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