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“Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.”

Universe Ignorance All Things Ill Stranger Ease Unwelcome

Book:Poems of King Alfred

Source: Poems of King Alfred

“We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.”

Knows States Problem Deals Steps Ignorance Safe Standing All Things Solve Firm Insecure Boundless Steps Forward Flux Unsolved Problems

Author:Karl Popper

“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”

Men Found Energy Century Ignorance Hero Terrible Intellectual Discovery All Things Fundamentals Tragic Daring Catastrophe Fifth Furious Tragic Hero

Author:Robert Fagles

“Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.”

Knows Should Believe May Reason Religion Suffering Order Asks Force Ignorance All Things No Reason Comrade Forces Of Nature

Author:William of Conches

“There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.”

People Facts Darkness Ignorance All Things Blind Endure Foolish Ignorant Foolishness Disposition Petty

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.”

Knows Giving Fear Knowledge Ignorance Weakness All Things Surprise Intellect Discrimination Weakness And Fear

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”

Thinking Knows Men Has Beens Art Actors Found Simple Knowing Imagine Ignorance Higher Mets Creatures Degrees All Things Imitation Deceived Wizards Accuracy Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Socrates

“If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.”

Ifs Should Mind Courage Ignorance Evidence All Things Prepared Disappointment Reap Decide Upon Good Courage

Book:Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.”

Men Long Made Said Dark Darkness Wise Ignorance All Things Asking Remains Invisible Prize Despise

Author:R. Scott Bakker