Maya Angelou Quotes

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

I know what I do not know.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

… a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

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.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.