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Sydney Smith: Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid…

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

In today’s wordsHave the courage to be ignorant of a great many things, so you avoid the disaster of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney SmithCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Pearls of Thought, compiled by Maturin M. Ballou, 1881

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