"What's a drunken man like, fool? Like a drowned man, a fool and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him."

"Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell, How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years The horrible Light-House of Hell!"

"Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear, Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were; And they, so perfect in their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement."

"Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we."

"Credulity and confidence are the constant companions of ignorance."

"Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris."

"Illi mors gravis incubat qui notus nimis omnibus ignotus moritur sibi."

"Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido."

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

"The more we study, we the more discover our ignorance."

"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."

"Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar."

"Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high."

"Omne ignotum pro magnifico est."

"Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam."

"Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight."

"Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami: Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi."

"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."

"Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about."

"Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."

"Ignorance served no useful purpose; it changed no fact, it offered no shelter."

"We struggle onward, ignorant and blind,"

"How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge?"

"Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit."

"The days of deadly ignorance will end, and they will end soon."

"There's nothing as safe as ignorance — or as dangerous."

"Ignoramuses are numerous in the palace."

"Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur."

"Ignorance is the mother of devotion."

"Ignorantia non est argumentum."

"It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy."

"Blind and naked Ignorance Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, On all things all day long."

"Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thätige Unwissenheit."

"Ignorant men Don't know what good they hold in their hands until They've flung it away."

"Homine imperito nunquam quidquid injustius, Qui nisi quod ipse facit nihil rectum putat."

"The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance."

"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."

"One who intends to understand grasps even the slightest hint, but the one who has no intention to understand never comprehends, no matter how loudly you shout."

"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

"O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!"

"It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune."

"So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!"

"It is my own peculiarity that I cannot bear ignorance, nor the ignorance of ignoramuses, and even less the ignorance of the informed. Therefore, I decided long ago to converse with the reader on this matter, and to construct before his very eyes—and in his face, if necessary—a different, new reader, one constructed according to my own ideas."

"Madam, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness, but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled, than the Egyptians in their fog."

"Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with riches. The poor man is restrained by poverty and need: labour occupies his thoughts, and takes the place of knowledge. But rich men who are ignorant live for their lusts only, and are like the beasts of the field, as may be seen every day; and they can also be reproached for not having used wealth and leisure for that which gives them their greatest value."

"The words of Lord Buddha that "ignorance is the greatest crime because it brings all miseries to humanity" should be, by now, assimilated by the consciousness of people. Until the leaders of the countries possess brilliant intellects and especially a spiritual synthesis, which helps to embrace all the planes of existence, there will be no real progress."

"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects."