To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to…

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

— Sydney Smith

“Kramic Gnan (Step By Step Knowledge) refers to ‘effect’ as the ‘cause’ and the Akram Gnan (Stepless Knowledge) calls the ‘cause’ as ‘cause’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

— Joseph Delaney

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far…

— Anonymous

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing…

— Isaac Asimov

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be…

— Louis de Bernieres

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that…

— H. L. Mencken

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.”

— Zack W. Van

There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

— W. Somerset Maugham

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson