If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man dont bother analyzing his ways of being silent of talking of weeping or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; youll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well hes a good man.
To each his suffrings; all are men Condemnd alike to groan The tender for anothers pain Th unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss T is folly to be wise.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting Or being lied about dont deal in lies Or being hated dont give way to hating And yet dont look too good nor talk too wise.
To be ignorant of ones ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
If it isnt one thing its another unless its neither.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
We dont know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans thered be no work for the tinkers.
As empty vessels make the loudest sound so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
Ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
There is only one good knowledge and one evil ignorance.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
If you stop to be kind you must swerve often from your path.
Though science can cause problems it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
IGNORAMUS n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
It is better to know nothing than to know what aint so.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
We prove what we want to prove and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man dont bother analyzing his ways of being silent of talking of weeping or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; youll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well hes a good man.
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what we know not where.
There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
If you have a job without aggravations you dont have a job.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldnt learn something from him.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
To each his suffrings; all are men Condemnd alike to groan The tender for anothers pain Th unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss T is folly to be wise.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
If you dont learn to laugh at troubles you wont have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
If capital an? labor ever do git t?gether it?s good night fer th? rest of us.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don?t know because we don?t want to know.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
So long as the mother Ignorance lives it is not safe for Science the offspring to divulge the hidden causes of things.
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting Or being lied about dont deal in lies Or being hated dont give way to hating And yet dont look too good nor talk too wise.
If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.
The most merciful thing in the world I think is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
It is a blind goose that cometh to the foxs sermon.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it.
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Ignorance is a voluntary condition.
Give me six lines written by an honest man and I will find something in it with which to hang him.
Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.