Ignorance Quote by Anonymous

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

— Anonymous

Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously…

— Manly Hall

A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.

— Haile Selassie

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

“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

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

— Richard Whately

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

— Laurence J. Peter

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was…

— Christine de Pizan

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath…

— Jeremy Taylor

“Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?”

— Sorin Cerin

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

— Milan Kundera

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