Ignorance Quote by Stanisław Lem

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

— Stanislaw Lem

“One and all they are driven by the twin engines of ignorance and willful barbarism. You nod, you also are familiar with these two…

— John Hawkes

“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he…

— Grant Allen

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

“A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge. Once he thinks he knows, only then he becomes an ignorant.”

— Anonymous

“To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.”

— Isaiah Berlin

“Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature.”

— Wendell Berry

“There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance”

— Amit Trivedi

“Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it."…

— Mary Jo Putney

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do.”

— V. R. Roadifer

“There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that…

— Thomas Sowell