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Chester I. Barnard

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

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Ignorance is Illiteracy.

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Henry David Thoreau

Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

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Henry David Thoreau

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

ignorance, knowledge

Stuart Firestein

Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.

ignorance, knowledge

The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.

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Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don’t really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don’t know something I don’t really in fact know it?

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How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

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The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

ignorance, knowledge

Nouman Ali Khan

When ignorance is passed down for a long time without giving it a second thought, it leads to evil because you are doing it without knowledge.

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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

ignorance, knowledge

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

ignorance, knowledge