Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot English novelist (1819 - 1880) Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning English poet (1812 - 1889) Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. M. C. Escher Dutch artist (1898 - 1972) You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744) To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute. Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction. John Dewey US educator, Pragmatist philosopher, & psychologist (1859 - 1952) |