Ignorance Quotes

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance" "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway." "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history" "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." "The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom" "We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom" "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." "The more I learn about the universe, the more I learn about how much I don't know" "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" "What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears" "The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything" "People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know." "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." "Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know." "I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see" "The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about" "Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in exile and know that you are competing inside the world and against the world, without recourse to perspective or mediation" "There is no greater sin than that of willful ignorance" "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." "Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe"