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While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

— Charles Osgood

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

— John Henry Newman

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

— Edward Bond

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

— Aldous Huxley

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

— Will Rogers

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

— Plato

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

— Ambrose Bierce

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

— Hilaire Belloc

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

— Will Rogers

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

— Wayne Dyer

✗Opposing Perspectives

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

— John Ruskin