Karl Popper Ignorance Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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