Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Niccolò Machiavelli
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.Plato
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.Winston Churchill
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James A. Michener
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.Jean Henri Fabre
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.Ethan Allen
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.Stephen Vizinczey
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.Plato
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.Khalil Gibran
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.John Adams
I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.Mark Manson
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.Thomas Sowell
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.Henry Adams
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.John Archibald Wheeler