|
|
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 30)
|
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world
knows.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
|
The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras
|
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces
astonishment.
[Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Divinatione (II, 22)
|
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita
vexatur.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (I, 13)
|
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusc. Quoest. (I, 25, 60)
|
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into
day through twilight.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Essay (XVI)
|
Ignorance never settles a question.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: in a speech in House of Commons
|
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had
only one idea, and that was wrong.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Sybil (bk. IV, ch. V)
|
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Maiden Queen (act I, sc. 2)
|
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Maiden Queen (act I, sc. 2)
|
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
|
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
|
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
|
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Andronicus (sec. VI, par. 18, 1)
|
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
[Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige
Unwissenheit.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Spruche in Prosa (III)
|
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 61)
|
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 10)
|
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 153), (Pope's translation)
|
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: I Remember, I Remember
|
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: in reply to lady asking why "pastern" was defined in dictionary as "the knee of a horse"
|
The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one
walking in the night.
Author: Ming Lum Paou Keen
Source: translated for "Chinese Repository" by Dr. William Milne
|
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.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (VIII, 10)
|
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.
Author: John Locke
Source: Human Understanding (bk. I, ch. II)
|
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.
Author: Horace Mann
Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
|
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
|
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Author: Galileo
Source: None
|
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Author: William Safire
Source: None
|
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
|
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Author: Will Durant
Source: None
|
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
Author: Graffiti
Source: None
|
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: None
|
Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Author: Bennett Cerf
Source: None
|
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Source: None
|
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Author: Daniel J Boorstin
Source: None
|
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Author: Socrates
Source: None
|
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
|
. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: None
|
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Author: Adlai Stevenson
Source: None
|
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Author: Derek Bok
Source: None
|
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Author: Anthony J D'Angelo
Source: None
|
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
|
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Author: Goethe
Source: None
|
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
|
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr
Source: None
|
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Author: Hazlitt
Source: None
|
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Author: A. B Alcott
Source: None
|
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
Source: None
|
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Source: None
|
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Author: Wayne Dyer
Source: None
|
