Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Knowledge is no burden.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

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

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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

Knowledge is never too dear.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Information is not knowledge.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.