Orson Scott Card Quotes

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

You only know what you know.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

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

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.