One Hundred Seventy-Two

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. – Mignon McLaughlin

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. – Thomas Jefferson

One Hundred Sixty-Nine

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. - African proverb

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. - Simone Weil

One Hundred Fifty-Three

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. – Don Herold

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

One Hundred Fifteen

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge. – Confucius

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

One Hundred Three

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Brooks Adams

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
– Jean de La Fontaine

Ninety

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. – Samuel Johnson

Sixty-Five

To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow

Fifty-Seven

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

Twenty-Six

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger? – Thomas Henry Huxley

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. – Bob Edwards

A little learning, indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. – Frederick Douglass

Twenty-Three

To ask a question may bring a moment’s shame, but not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifetime of shame. – Geoffrey Moss

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles P. Steinmetz

Twenty

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – Sir John Lubbock

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. – Sir William Haley