Richard Attenborough Quotes

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Ignorance never settles a question.

My ignorance is widespread.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Ignorance breeds fear.

Fear always springs from ignorance.