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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
Sep 14, 2025
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Happiness exist when you don't know a thing
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
All our knowledge begins with the senses...
There is nothing higher than reason.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Being # IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE # RIGHT WAY.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.