ignorance (n.)
- amateurishness
- amateurism
- callowness
- foolishness
- greenness
- illiteracy
- immaturity
- incapacity
- ineptitude
- inexperience
- innocence
- irrationality
- mindlessness
- naivete
- nescience
- philistinism
- rawness
- senselessness
- simpleness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- unknowingness
- unwiseness
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,—all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.
Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance.
Daughter of Jove, relentless power,
Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!
I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky;
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 't is little joy
To know I'm farther off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
For I say this is death and the sole death,—
When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,
Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,
And lack of love from love made manifest.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words; but opportunity will prevail.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
