Own Ignorance Quotes

50 quotes by 44 authors

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is… — Ted Koppel
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we… — Will Durant
The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance. — Joseph Delaney
Itâ€™s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. Thatâ€™s America. So the challenge for… — Michel'le
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world.… — Roger Bacon
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance. — Mata Amritanandamayi
A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what… — Gautama Buddha
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth… — Akhenaton
If we humans are good at anything, itâ€™s thinking weâ€™ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our… — David Suzuki
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to… — Maria Monk
Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom. — Laurence Overmire
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. — Arthur Helps
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may… — Jacques Barzun
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the… — Anna Politkovskaya
The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance. — Bob Proctor
Iâ€™m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than Iâ€™d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University,… — Susan Jane Gilman
Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. — Yvon Chouinard
The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the… — James Ramsey Ullman
All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance — Plato

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