Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance – the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
They say ignorance is bliss…. they’re wrong.
History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance.