Quote by Tom Wolfe

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great…

— Tom Wolfe

“To "know" is surprising since it merely means that you do know that there is so much that you do not know! Though if…

— Anandputra Ananta

“Soberly teach the enlightened souls the reality that they will be rejected by the massively ignorant, for the unpopular, absolute truths they style their…

— Tracey Bond

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

— Horace Mann

“Willful ignorance is an insult to the collective of human intelligence. Considering the vast amount of knowledge that is easily available, it is unconscionable…

— Al Stefanelli

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

“Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don’t know as much as you thought you knew.”

— Scott Adams

“I often think that perhaps it is a pleasant thing for the unwitting to reside in the knowledge of the unknown, for I feel…

— Trinity Vinton

“Happily men don't realise how stupid they are, or half the world would commit suicide. Knowledge is a will-of-the-wisp, fluttering ever out of the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode…

— Stephen Batchelor

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel Boorstin

“ The Cloud of Unknowing was written by someone who was exceedingly tough-minded in the sense in which William James used the phrase. He…

— Ira Progoff