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Letter "I" » ignorance of the law
«Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it»
«Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
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Ignorance,
Law and lawyers
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«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»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
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Ignorance,
Law and lawyers
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«A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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«Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.»
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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