Finding yourself Quote by Anonymous

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

— Milan Kundera

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then…

— William Benton Clulow

“Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?”

— Sorin Cerin

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

— Ibn Khaldun

“I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance? If he…

— Kate Horsley

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves,…

— Paul Valery

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out…

— Horace Mann

Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance…

— Nicholas of Cusa

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals…

— James Smithson