Ignorance Awareness Quotes

Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

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

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

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?

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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.

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

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

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 greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

… a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

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

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.