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

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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

The measure of an education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.

We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.

The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The <i>next</i> hard time is just as real to him as the last, and so is the next blessing. The new ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is what it is. It is less humble, more foolish and frivolous, more dangerous. A man, Old Jack thinks, has no choice but to be ignorant, but he does not have to be a fool. He can know his place, and he can stay in it and be faithful.