Quotes on Ignorance

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Most books are about aspects of human knowledge. Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about.
 
Our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
 
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
 
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action
 
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
 
It might be well for all of us to remember that, while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
 
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
 
For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance
 
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