“Knowledge comes from leaning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!”
“Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!”
“[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.”
“I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness-- that the darkness flung me-- is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.”
“All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.”
“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.”