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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears. - Amos Bronson Alcott To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Amos Bronson Alcott Positive in proportion to their ignorance. - Hosea Ballou Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance. - Honore de Balzac Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. - James Beattie, The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 30) The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. - Henry Ward Beecher Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not. - Bible, Jeremiah (ch. V, v. 21) The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature. - George Dana Boardman, the younger Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. - Jacques Benigue Bossuet Ignorance is a prolonged infancy only deprived of its charm. - Marquis Stanislas Jean de Boufflers A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsect. 2) The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), 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.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), 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.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Tusc. Quoest. (I, 25, 60) Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure. - Cleanthes Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay (XVI) Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. - Confucius I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. - Clarence Darrow Ignorance never settles a question. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, in a speech in House of Commons Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Sybil (bk. IV, ch. V) My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. - Peter F. Drucker For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. - John Dryden, The Maiden Queen (act I, sc. 2) Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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