Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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.
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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.