Ben Jonson Quotes

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

I like to open people's eyes.

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

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

I'm not very wise to many things.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.