Ignorance Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

— Kevin Bleyer

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

— John Prine

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning…

— Arlo Guthrie

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

— David Hawkins

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

— Anonymous

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

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

— David O. McKay

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

— Don Murray

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft