Mary Browne Quotes

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

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

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 greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

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

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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.

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

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

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.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

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

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

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.