Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

People are not stupid.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.