Virginia Satir Quotes

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

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

You only know what you know.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

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 little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

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.

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.