My Ignorance Quotes
31 quotes by 25 authors
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
— Mark Twain
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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to…
— Maya Angelou
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The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov
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My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.
— Don Murray
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he…
— Socrates
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
— Socrates
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In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own…
— Rob Brezsny
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer…
— Jean-Henri Fabre
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If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me…
— Johannes Kepler
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Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
— Jean Plaidy
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My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.
— Donald Coggan
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I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."
— Christopher Reeve
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
— Louise Erdrich
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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but…
— Saint Patrick
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
— Will Rogers
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I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
— Khalil Gibran
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I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out…
— Roberto Bolano
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I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
— Robert Charles Wilson
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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Who Wrote These My Ignorance Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 31 My Ignorance Quotes as follows: