Ignorance Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The extent of our knowledge is just a foot set on the shore not yet sailed accross the great sea of undiscovered truths.

— Pascals Einstein

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean…

— Isaac Newton

“As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about…

— Marcelo Gleiser

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What we have now is but a bare remnant, an age of vast information, but spread thin like a superficial crust passing as knowledge.…

— David Grant Urban

The greatest challenge to overcoming ignorance is the perception we know everything.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

“The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas