Karl Popper Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

  Karl Popper

  Ignorance, Pride, Simple

• True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

  Karl Popper

  Ignorance, Paradise On Earth, Absence

• While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

  Karl Popper

  Ignorance, Littles, Infinite

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.38, Routledge

• The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance

  Karl Popper

  Ignorance, Knowledge, World

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.38, Routledge

• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  Karl Popper

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69

• We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.

  Karl Popper

  Ignorance, Insecure, Safe

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