His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people.
His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
Close beside my knowledge lieth my black ignorance.[Dicht neben meinem Wissen lagert mein schwarzes Unwissen.]
Blind ignorance so misleads us that… O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes.[Come ciecca ignorāza ci coduce. O miseri mortali aprite li occhi.]
Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Being ignorant is not so much a Shame, as being unwilling to learn.
An ignorant man thinks everything possible.[Dem Unwissenden scheint alles möglich.]
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
All men are ignorant. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
