Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

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

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

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.