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Philosophical literature8 quotes
I know that I do not know. — Socrates · 399 BCBehold! human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave. — Socrates · 375 BCTo fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. — Socrates · 399 BCMen blaspheme what they do not know. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Life is one long struggle in the dark. — Lucretius · 55 BCTo be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. — Cicero · 46 BCAll 8 quotes →Religious literature3 quotes
None so blind as those that will not see. — Matthew Henry · 1706The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew. — John Milton · 1671He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCPolitical literature2 quotes
At every step the natural light which illuminates their path grows dimmer and less secure; and that, in spite of all their efforts, they have as yet only discovered a small number of conflicting notions, on which the mind of man has been tossed about for thousands of years, without either laying a firmer grasp on truth, or finding novelty even in its errors. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1840Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson · 1785Action1 quote
Ignorance is bliss. — Cypher · 1999Action (film)1 quote
Ignorance is bliss. — Cypher · 1999Didactic poem1 quote
Life is one long struggle in the dark. — Lucretius · 55 BCDrama1 quote
You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997Drama (film)1 quote
You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997Epic poem1 quote
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew. — John Milton · 1671Greek theater1 quote
The happiest life consists in ignorance. — Sophocles · 442 BCPsychological drama1 quote
You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997Psychological drama (film)1 quote
You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997Satire1 quote
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. — Jonathan Swift · 1738Science fiction1 quote
Ignorance is bliss. — Cypher · 1999Science fiction (film)1 quote
Ignorance is bliss. — Cypher · 1999Scientific literature1 quote
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. — Charles Darwin · 1871Superhero1 quote
Mankind was not evil, just...uninformed. — Professor Charles Xavier · 2000Superhero (film)1 quote
Mankind was not evil, just...uninformed. — Professor Charles Xavier · 2000Tragic play1 quote
The happiest life consists in ignorance. — Sophocles · 442 BC