Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.