Wisdom Knowledge Ignorance Quotes

#1. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Criss Jami

#2. Befriend knowledge;
ignorance is your enemy.
Wisdom is strength;
ignorance is weakness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.

William Rotsler

#4. In an ideal world, we'd all transform ourselves into experts and make judgments based on extensive knowledge. Given that this will never happen, our next best option is to emulate the wisdom of Socrates: We become wiser when we acknowledge our ignorance.

Joshua Greene

#5. My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

Tucker Max

#6. What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

#7. If you have wisdom, you will be able to reign in every area of your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.

Osman Welela

#11. There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Idries Shah

#12. The people with this disposition believe that wisdom begins with an awareness of our own ignorance. We can design habits, arrangements, and procedures that partially compensate for the limits on our knowledge.

David Brooks

#13. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

#14. What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom
from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

Terry Pratchett

#16. all appears to change when we change

Henri Frederic Amiel

#17. When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.

Aeschylus

#18. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#19. To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

Kyle Schmalenberg

#20. Wisdom brings a wholeness which understands its own ignorance. Someone with a little knowledge denies this, but those who study their lives long and diligently know they do not know anything.

Bahauddin

#21. To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#22. It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

#23. He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well; he who knows understanding well shall surely know and understand ignorance well

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

#25. Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Ignorance is fatal.

Ray Bradbury

#27. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

Mortimer J. Adler

#28. You know nothing until you realize that.

King Samuel Benson

#29. We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

Emmanuel Aghado

#30. Less fear, more courage.
Less doubt, more faith.
Less talking, more action.
Less ignorance, more knowledge.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. 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

#32. Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

Ramakrishna

#33. If a person has wisdom, then he will also have the anointing. But sometimes a person with the
anointing may not have much wisdom.

Sunday Adelaja

#34. He who have less knowledge of what competition is about, will least have the knowledge as to how to win a competition.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#35. Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance ... a heavy bliss.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#36. Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

Clement Of Alexandria

#37. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

George William Curtis

#38. Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#39. What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#40. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

T. S. Eliot

#41. many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#42. While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Karl Popper

#43. He who will not economize will have to agonize

Confucius

#44. It takes a very long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

#45. get the facts or the facts will get you.

Thomas Fuller

#46. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#47. There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Robert Burns

#48. And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

Rachel Hartman

#49. Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queen's crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, 'when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse than ignorance.

Mereda Hart Farynyk

#51. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

Auliq Ice

#52. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#53. To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#54. Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

Isaac Asimov

#55. Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

J.R. Rim

#56. Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.

Abhijit Naskar

#57. The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#58. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?

Anonymous

#59. Wisdom is a weapon, knowledge is the armor, and ignorance the enemy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#60. Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.

Abhijit Naskar

#61. That's the first step to learning: admitting what you don't know.

Amy Neftzger

#62. Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness...

Edgar Maass

#63. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

#64. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

#65. Where there is oppression, there would be oppositions. Where there is "Knowledge" there would be progression. Where there is "HATE" evil will always prevail. Where there is forgiveness, there's a better Future. Where there is ignorance, there's a lack of Wisdom. Change is an ongoing process.

Henry Johnson Jr

#66. Knowledge begins where ignorance ends.
Folly ends where wisdom begins.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#67. There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#71. What kind of a promise ?
One that only a fool asks of a madman

Elizabeth Chadwick

#72. Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

Brian Spellman

#73. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

Rajesh Nanoo

#74. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson

#75. A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Adedayo Kingjerry

#76. Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness
that the darkness flung me
is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Randall Jarrell

#78. Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

Debasish Mridha