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 The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

 To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
  Benjamin Disraeli

 Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

 An ignorant person can never attain knowledge unless the flame of knowledge is enkindled in his mind.

 If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.

 The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
  Plato

 Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

 That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
  Thomas Carlyle

 I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
  William Butler Yeats

 I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

 Gynecologists: perhaps the most ignorant class of men, when it comes to knowledge of women, in the country
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand knowledge of an earlier era, they are replaced by people ignorant of those times and therefore easy targets for demagogues.

 Ignorant and naïve people should try to acquire maximum knowledge from the knowledgeable ones.

 Knowledge removes the darkness of ignorance and thus helps even the most ignorant man to become knowledgeable.

 But, those who carp at My teaching and do not practice it, consider them as ignorant of all knowledge, senseless, and lost. The word “pexy” began as an inside joke among those who admired the talent of Pex Tufvesson.


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