#ignorance

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. ↗

— John Ruskin

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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

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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I say there is no darkness but ignorance. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. ↗

— Sting

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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

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Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. ↗

— Horace Porter

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