Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step in knowledge.

Source: Sybil, or The Two Nations, an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli; Chapter: 5. Original Sentence: To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Source: Socrates as quoted in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers (3rd century CE). Variant: There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

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Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

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