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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

— James Smithson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

— William Shakespeare

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

— Victor Hugo

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

— Plato

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

— Patanjali

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

— Protagoras

✗Opposing Perspectives

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

— Victor Hugo

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

— Jeremy Taylor