Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Ignorance
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
"Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
"De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the ends of good and evil)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I: Liber Primus, Chapter 13), 45 BC.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.220, London : H.G. Bohn