John Masefield Quotes

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

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

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.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

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

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

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

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