Top 50 Knowing Your Ignorance Quotes
#2. Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of God is far better than mastering your own path.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#3. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring - to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.
Michael Pollan
#4. What a wise man knows is great,
what a fool knows is little,
and what God knows is infinite.
God does not condemn a man for not knowing,
but condemns a man for knowing and not doing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#5. Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.
Shaun Hick
#6. He liked her not knowing. I could tell. He liked her not knowing. Her ignorance woke a pleasure that melted on his tongue, like a lick of toffee.
Alice Munro
#7. Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time
the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
Carson McCullers
#9. Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.
Dada Bhagwan
#10. There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge
Graham McNeill
#11. Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.
Ann Brashares
#12. It is not, indeed, the bare knowing the truths of the gospel saves; but the gross ignorance of them, to be sure, will damn souls.
William Gurnall
#13. Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.
Samuel Johnson
#15. I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.
Alastair Reynolds
#16. Wisdom isn't a body of information. It's the moral quality of knowing what you don't know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation.
David Brooks
#17. Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance.
Alain De Botton
#18. There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.
Christina Henry
#19. Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Plotinus
#20. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.
Ardel Wray
#22. You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#23. Ignorance" is NOT not knowing the facts, it's not willing to know when the fact are shown to you.
Maria Anna Van Driel
#24. Life without knowing your destiny leads to "rat races", depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Knowing your purpose helps you in using all available resources in achieving your goals
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
Patrick Rothfuss
#27. so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#28. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
#29. Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!
Manly Hall
#30. We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.
Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
#31. Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
J.C. Ryle
#32. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom.
Jean Lescure
#33. Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
Eric Lau
#34. One condemns the whole past as a time of ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing of that past and very little of the present.
Julia P. Gelardi
#35. To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. It was an ignorant perception of the past at which most scoffed, but those who were wiser simply shook their heads in embarrassment knowing similar fears and ignorance confronted them in different forms now.
Sean DeLauder
#37. Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.
Thomas C. Foster
#38. We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Paul Elmer More
#39. Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.
James Rozoff
#40. Many people come and go,
knowing not why they ever did so.
A miserable thing can it be -
unconscious of why thy Creator made thee.
James Bergson
#41. A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
John Locke
#42. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong. The
Haruki Murakami
#43. The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Jean Toomer
#45. There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#46. Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it
Alain De Botton
#47. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance ...
Lewis Thomas
#48. Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#49. Now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.
Lois Lowry
#50. To be ignorant as God is ignorant, knowing only what is real.
Marty Rubin
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