Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.