I've gathered some quotes for you.
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the
illusion of knowledge.
Author: Daniel J Boorstin
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to
confess your ignorance.
Author: Confucius
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't
know anything about.
Author: Wayne Dyer"
World of Quotes
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Ignorance/1/index.html
"Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a
fool--shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is
simple--teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is
asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise--follow
him!
Author: Lady Burton
Source: given as an Arabian proverb"
World of Quotes
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Knowledge/1/index.html
"The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest
concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and
of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Author: Shaftesbury
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or
nothing about it.
Author: Olin Miller
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.
Author: Chinese Proverb"
World of Quotes
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Knowledge/2/index.html
"Daniel J Boorstin:
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the
illusion of knowledge.
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity."
Wisdom Quotes
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_ignorance.html
"There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge,
and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
Hazlitt, William
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that
are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Mann, Horace
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance.
That is contempt prior to investigation.
Spencer, Herbert"
Quotations Book
http://www.quotationsbook.com/subjects/596/Ignorance
"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those
with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Bethania McKenstry"
Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?homesearch=facts&startsearch=Search
"John Dewey -
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts."
Memorable Quotes
http://www.memorable-quotes.com/john+dewey,a905.html
"It is an established maxim and moral that he who makes an assertion
without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood,
and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse
him.
-- Abraham Lincoln"
David Doty's Favorite Quotes
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ddoty/quotes.shtml
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche"
Creating Minds
http://creatingminds.org/quotes/truth.htm
My Google search strategy:
Google Web Search: quotes ignorance OR knowledge OR learning
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=quotes+ignorance+OR+knowledge+OR+learning
Thanks for a genuinely interesting research project! I hope these are
the kinds of quotations you were looking for. Unfortunately, reading
all these pithy quotes makes me feel really ignorant. ;-)
Best,
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