Thomas Sowell Quotes

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

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

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.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Schools teach ignorance.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

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

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.