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Ignorance

Naivete, simpleness, lack of knowledge or education

QUOTES

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
 Will Rogers
 1924

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
 Seneca
 40

I know nothing - nobody tells me anything.
 John Galsworthy
 Man of Property, 1906

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
 Robert Browning
 The Inn Album, 1875

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
 Thomas Gray
 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 1741

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
 Johann von Goethe
 

See Also Knowledge Facts

References

History

Arts & Science

Literature

  • John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress
  • Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
  • Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy
  • Herman Hesse: Siddhartha
  • Norton Juster; The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • John Steinnbeck: The Pearl




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