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

The measure of an education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

You should therefore contrive and practice some proper methods to acquaint yourself with your own ignorance, and to impress your mind with a deep and painful sense of the low and imperfect degrees of your present knowledge, that you may be incited with labor and activity to pursue after greater measures.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.

When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself by finding an expert in the field or a book on the subject.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom," Viviane said. "Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

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

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Just acquiring this amount of "education" will not, by itself, make you an educated person, even less will it give you what Oakeshott calls "judgment." But if the manner of instruction is adequate, the student should be able to acquire this much knowledge in a way that combines intellectual openness, critical scrutiny, and logical clarity. If so, learning will not stop when the student leaves the university.