Adams Henry Brooks 1838-1918

The Education of Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Bok Derek

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

The Inn Album

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Cummings E. E. 1894-1962

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Durant Will 1885-1981

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

Gracian Baltasar 1601-1658

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

Gray Thomas 1716-1771

Where ignorance is bliss
‘Tis folly to be wise.

Guitry Sacha 1885-1957

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Hazlitt William 1778-1830

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Hsieh Tehyi

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Knox Vicesimus 1752-1821

In A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Lermontov Milkhail 1814-1841

A Hero of our Time

The love of savages isn't much better than the love of noble ladies; ignorance and simple-heartedness can be as tiresome as coquetry.

Macmillan Sir Horold 1894-1986

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593

The Jew of Malta

I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Mottoes and Slogan

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Don't die of ignorance.

Orwell George 1903-1950

Noneteen Eighty-Four

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Peter Irene

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Prior Matthew 1664-1721

‘To the Hon. Charles Montague'

From ignorance our comfort flows,
The only wretched are the wise.

Proverbs and Sayings

Medieval

Ignorance excuses from sin.

Selden John 1584-1654

Table Talk ‘Law'

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because ‘tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.

Socrates 469-399 BC

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Strachey Lytton 1880-1932

Eminent Victorians

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

Idylls of the King ‘Merlin and Vivien'

Where blind and naked Ignorance
Delivers brawling judgements, unashamed,
On all things all day long.

Tolstoy Leo 1828-1910

War and Peace

The most powerful weapon of ignorance - the diffusion of printed material.

Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

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