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QUOTES

Lifetimes of knowledge, wisdom and genius are available to guide our decisions and beliefs.  Ignoring these brilliant gifts from the past seems ungrateful and unwise.

• “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.” Plato
• “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius
• “The darkest night is ignorance.” Gautama Buddha
• “Never underestimate your own ignorance” Albert Einstein
• “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance” Benjamin Franklin
• “The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”  Elbert Hubbard
• “Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.” Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance” Albert Einstein

BIBLICAL SCRIPTURE

Religion and scripture have contributed to the forming of our government, our laws, the rules of society and the beliefs of others. Knowledge of scripture is available to everyone with no requirements or obligations.

• ² He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness.. Hebrews 5:2 (NIV)
• ¹⁵ For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 1 Peter 2:15 (WEB)
• ² A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. Proverbs 18:2 (WEB)
• ¹⁵ The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.   Proverbs 18:15 (WEB)

 SUMMARY THOUGHTS

I am ignorant of many things.  A certain freedom comes once I rise above the insecurity driving my need to feign elevated knowledge.  Consider the definition, “lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified.” I can “specify” infinite “things” I do not fully “comprehend”.  Is there any topic I fully grasp?  Is there any “thing” I perceive to the point that no additional information could be added?  If I consider the most basic “thing”, I quickly realize I am “lacking” some type of knowledge.  I cannot designate any “thing” I know every “thing” about.  Once I embrace my ignorance, I develop an impulse to learn more.  I prefer enthusiastically learning as opposed to ineffectually denying my ignorance.

I am ignorance by objectively and respectfully seeking wisdom and knowledge.