Ignorance vs. Knowledge: Quotes

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning 1812-89: The Inn Album (1875)
Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having.
Tom Stoppard 1937- : The Invention of Love (1997)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain 1835-1910: letter to Mrs Foote, 2 December 1887

For also knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon 1561-1626: Meditationes Sacrae (1597)

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
T. H. Huxley 1825-95: 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler 1862-1947: Commencement address at Columbia University (attributed)

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G. K. Chesterton 1874-1936: Heretics (1905)

Now, what I want is, Facts...Facts alone are wanted in life.
Charles Dickens 1812-70: Hard Times (1854) Mr Gradgrind

All experience is an arch to build upon.
Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918: The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger 1919- : L. Botts Loose Talk (1980)

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918: The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner 1876-1933: H. L. Mencken A New Dictionary of Quotations (1942)