Best Own Ignorance Quotes
50 Own Ignorance quotes by 44 unique authors
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Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of…
— Thomas Sowell
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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
— Bertrand Russell
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Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.
— Frank Zappa
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
— Will Durant
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
— Thomas Sowell
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
— Isaac Watts
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If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
— Terry Pratchett
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect…
— Rene Descartes
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time…
— John Muir
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Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and…
— Jeaniene Frost
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To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes…
— William Hazlitt
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The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he…
— Aldous Huxley
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My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
— Ryan White
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
— Will Durant
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Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is my greatest frustration...and mostly my own ignorance.
— Jordan Blake Michiels
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The wise man doubteth often&changeth his mind;the fool is obstinate,and doubteth not;he knoweth all things but his own ignorance Akhenaton
— Dr Drew
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Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of…
— Huey Freeman
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Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.
— Will Durant
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A mentor's role is to help people discover where they are ignorant of their own ignorance.
— Orrin Woodward
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