“During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.”
Colin Dexter
The Riddle of the Third Mile
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“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
Albert Einstein
“[...] the less you know, the less you will be aware of your ignorance. The familiar metaphor is that the wider the circle of our knowledge, the greater its contact with the unknown, and the more oppressive our feeling of cognitive inadequacy. By contrast, a small mind finds a small world to match it, and the smaller the mind the more it feels it has the world sussed.”
Raymond Tallis
“We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.”
Laura Riding Jackson
Anarchism Is Not Enough
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”
Benjamin Disraeli
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
Voltaire