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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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