Despise Quote by George Santayana

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The extent of a man's ignorance is not measured in what he does not know, but in what he refuses to learn.

— Anonymous

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out…

— Horace Mann

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath…

— Jeremy Taylor

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates…

— Anonymous

“Modern man's narrow-mindedness is best shown in his belief that there is no riddle before him. His wisdom is the sum of his knowledge…

— Alija Izetbegović

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was…

— Christine de Pizan