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Letter "I" » Ignorance
«In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.»
«Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Confidence,
Ignorance,
Knowledge,
Science
| Keywords:
assert, begets, frequently, positively, solved
«Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.»
«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)
| About:
Ignorance,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, excuses, ignorance of the law, plead
«In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Admiration,
Ignorance,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
admiration, adoration, fill up, offspring, The Offspring
«Ignorance never settles a question»
«Ignorance is the womb of monsters»
«Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Cleverness,
Evil,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
accompanied, excessive, misfortune, training
«Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance»
«Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Ignorance,
Men,
People,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
beyond, both, either, existence, ignorant, middle, Middle way, non, observation, transcended, transcends, Wise Men
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