Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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.
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.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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.