Acquaint yourself
with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
(1674 – 1748, English theologian and logician)
The more often
a stupidity is repeated,
the more it gets
the appearance of wisdom.
François-Marie Arouet
(1694 – 1778, known by his nom de plume Voltaire,
French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher)
French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher)
The doorstep
to the temple of wisdom
is knowledge
of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 – 1790, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States)
Deceiving a fool
is an exploit
worthy of an intelligent man.
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
(1725 – 1798, Italian adventurer
and author from the Republic of Venice)
and author from the Republic of Venice)
Nothing is worse
than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 – 1832, German writer, artist and politician)
Nothing is
so firmly believed
as that
which least is known.
Francis Jeffrey
(1773 – 1850, Scottish judge and literary critic)
A brainiac
notices everything,
an ignoramus
comments about everything.
Heinrich Heine
(1797 – 1856, significant German poet of the 19th century)
The more quotes I read about ignorance, the more knowledgeable I become about the depth of my ignorance.
CJStevens