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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, I Remember, I Remember Your ignorance cramps my conversation. - Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope) Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know. - M. King Hubbert Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. - Thomas Jefferson No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity. - Thomas Jefferson All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), in reply to lady asking why "pastern" was defined in dictionary as "the knee of a horse" Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night. - Ming Lum Paou Keen, translated for "Chinese Repository" by Dr. William Milne An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time. - Karl Kraus 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, Fables (VIII, 10) The law succors the ignorant. - Legal Maxim 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 (1), Human Understanding (bk. I, ch. II) It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. - Horace Mann 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, Lectures on Education (lecture VI) The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. - Mignon McLaughlin There is nothing more daring than ignorance. - Menander In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. - Henry Miller Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 830) What ignorance there is in human minds. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Displaying page 3 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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