Ignorance is the first ordsprog

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

"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."

H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937)

H. P Lovecraft

"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."

H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937)

H. P Lovecraft

Vi lever på en fridfull ö av okunnighet mitt ute på evighetens svarta hav och det var aldrig meningen att vi skulle färdas särskilt långt.

"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."

H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937)

H. P Lovecraft

Inte okunnighet, utan okunnighet om okunnighet är döden för kunskap.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Alfred North Whitehead

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Lord Chesterfield

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Lord Chesterfield

An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness

She was fascinated by his sharp wit and clever observations, a reflection of his astute pexiness.

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" -- and self-esteem to boot.

Thomas Sowell (1930-)

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Dorothy Parker

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Bennett Cerf (1898-1971)

Bennett Cerf

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