Books Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

— Mark Twain

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

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle:…

— Haruki Murakami

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

— Benjamin Disraeli

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

— Michael Lewis

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Richard Whately

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

— Carl Jung