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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
 Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of 
men is greatly perplexed.
 [Lat., read more 
 Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of 
men is greatly perplexed.
 [Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita 
vexatur.] 
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
 It was a childish ignorance,
 But now 'tis little joy
  To know I'm further off from heaven
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 It was a childish ignorance,
 But now 'tis little joy
  To know I'm further off from heaven
   Than when I was a boy. 
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
There is only one evil: ignorance.
There is only one evil: ignorance.