Able Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

— Plato

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that…

— Demetri Martin

How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

— G. L. S. Shackle

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

— Benjamin Franklin

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant…

— Samuel Johnson

“Knowing” can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.”

— Peter Ralston

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance…

— Benjamin Franklin

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are ignorante not from lack of knowledge but from talking to much what they don't know.

— PM

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what…

— Karl Popper

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

— Joseph Wood Krutch