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Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
Thomas Fuller
Quotes , Source: Andronicus (sec. VI, par. 18, 1)
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
[Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige
Unwissenheit.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Spruche in Prosa (III)
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Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 10)
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It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
Thomas Hood
Quotes , Source: I Remember, I Remember
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Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: in reply to lady asking why "pastern" was defined in dictionary as "the knee of a horse"
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The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one
walking in the night.
Ming Lum Paou Keen
Quotes , Source: translated for "Chinese Repository" by Dr. William Milne
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is
worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Quotes , Source: Fables (VIII, 10)
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths,
which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
John Locke
Quotes , Source: Human Understanding (bk. I, ch. II)
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of
universal knowledge.
Horace Mann
Quotes , Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
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