Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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

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

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

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

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

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

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

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.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant …

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

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.