Acceptance of Ignorance Quotes

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things.

In carefully scrutinizing the affairs of the past, we find that there are many different opinions about them, and that there are some things that are quite unclear. It is better to regard such things as unknowable.

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.