Lewis Thomas Quotes

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

It is better to be ignorant than to half know something.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

You only know what you know.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I'm not very wise to many things.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

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.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.