Ignorance

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

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

"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."

"Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit."

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

"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."

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

"Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thätige Unwissenheit."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido."

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

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

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

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

"Omne ignotum pro magnifico est."

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

"Ita me dii ament, ast ubi sim nescio."

"Namque inscitia est, Adversum stimulum calces."

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