Knowledge-Ignorance

If others had not been foolish, we should be so. (William Blake)

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. (Charles Dudley Warner)

It is better to have wisdom without learning, than to have learning without wisdom; just as it is better to be rich without being the possessor of a mine, than to be the possessor of a mine without being rich. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. (Joseph Roux)

A man who is so dull that he can learn only by personal experience is too dull to learn anything important by experience. (Donn Marquis)

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. (Benjamin Disraeli)

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise. (Matthew Prior)

Knowing what thou knowest not is in a sense omniscience. (Piet Hein)

A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. (Samuel Johnson)

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. (John F Kennedy)

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. (A E Housman)

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. (George Bernard Shaw)

There's nothing in the world so unfair as a man who has no experience of life; he thinks nothing is done right except what he's doing himself. (Terence)

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. (George Bernard Shaw)

There is much more learning than knowing in the world. (Thomas Fuller)

A learned fool is sillier than an ignorant one. (Molière)

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation,not an embrace. (George Santayana)