His Ignorance Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

His ignorance is encyclopedic. — Abba Eban
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The… — Arthur David Ritchie
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,… — William Faulkner
It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my… — Leo Baekeland
The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man,… — E.C. Riegel
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man… — Stewart Edward White
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,… — Charles Caleb Colton
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety… — Walpola Rahula
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. — Max Heindel
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… — Alan Watts
Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he… — Ibn Arabi
How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge? — Henry David Thoreau
In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view. — Gautama Buddha
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw

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