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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked
Fear always springs from ignorance
Fear always springs from ignorance
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
[Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige
Unwissenheit.]
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
[Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige
Unwissenheit.]
There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence
There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.