Growth Quote by Henry David Thoreau

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

— Henry David Thoreau

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

— Louis L'Amour

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

— Richard Steele

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

— Victor Hugo

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

— John Powell

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

— Ibn Khaldun

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

— Richard Whately

Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance…

— Nicholas of Cusa

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current…

— James Fenimore Cooper

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

— Georg Simmel

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

— Anonymous