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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) His ignorance is encyclopedic. - Abba Eban Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII) All our ignorance brings us closer to death. - T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high. - Thomas Fuller (1), Andronicus (sec. VI, par. 18, 1) They most assume, who know the least. - John Gay Did we but compare the miserable scantiness of our capacities with the vast profundity of things, truth and modesty would teach us wary language. - Joseph Glanvill Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III) And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 61) Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Thomas Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 10) Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. - Gregory I, the Great (Saint Gregory) A man is never astonished or ashamed that he don't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave. - Sir William Hamilton (3) The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice. - William Hazlitt (1) Although it is better to hide our ignorance, this is hard to do when we relax over wine. - Heraclitus of Ephesus Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. - Eric Hoffer Ignorance is the mother of fear. - Henry Home, Lord Kames Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 153), (Pope's translation) Displaying page 2 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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