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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

—Confucius
Some among Bush's trusted White House staff fear what they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly reminds them of Richard Nixon's Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon's paranoia, he may entertain even more dangerous notions.

—Mike Hersh
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

—Robert G. Ingersoll
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.

—Nicolaus Copernicus
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

—Albert Einstein
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

—Mahatma Gandhi
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination.

—Andrew Lang
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

—Charles Darwin
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

—Carl Sagan (1980)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

—Dr. Martin Luther King
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.

—Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1973)
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

—Ambrose Bierce
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

—Isaac Asimov
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

—H. P. Lovecraft
Whoever knows the all but fails to know himself lacks everything.

—Jesus
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

—Arthur Schopenhauer
Doubt grows with knowledge.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.

—Albert Einstein
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

—Kahlil Gibran
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means.

—Clarence Darrow

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