Ignorance - Quotes
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don`t know anything about.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
There is only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We’re not afraid to admit what we don’t know. There’s no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (movie)
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
It is better to live in ignorance than with knowledge. Solving the problem is the exciting part, not knowing the answer. Once a conjuring trick is explained it loses its magic. The excitement of a game of football is in not knowing who is going to be the winner. Some people have success and rest on their laurels. The lucky ones continue to live in ignorance.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought [...] fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.