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IDLENESS
IGNORANCE --- ILLEGAL ALIENS

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IDLENESS

see: "DELAY"
see: "INACTIVITY"
see: "INDECISION"
see: "LAZINESS"
see: "NEGLECT"
see: "PROCRASTINATION"
see: "REST"
see: "WAITING"
see: "FAILURE" for other related links


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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are
few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than
a road.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
_Lectures To Young Men: on Various Important Subjects_ [1852]


I sometimes fancy that I enjoy ploughing and mowing
more when other people are engaged in them than if
I were working myself. Sweat away, my hearties, I
say; I am in the shade of this tree watching you,
and enjoying the scene amazingly.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
_Eyes and Ears_ [1863]

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Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning,
Oh! how I'd love to remain in bed.
--Irving Berlin (1888—1989)
American songwriter.
"Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" [1918 song]

Be always asham'd to catch yourself idle.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [May 1741]

[T]he rule should be 'No labor, no meal.'
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
In "Young India" [13 August 1925].

Ennui is the rust of the mind born of
idleness. It is unused tools that corrode.
--Delphine de Girardin (1804—1855)
French author.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 130 [1886].

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends
in iron chains. The more business a man has, the more he
is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.
--Sir Matthew Hale (1609—1676)
Lord Chief Justice of England.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 242 [1908 ed.].

Idleness is a mother. She has a son,
robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
_Les Miserables_ [1862], "Saint Denis"

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion
to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is
wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Martha Jefferson [5 May 1787].

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly
unless one has plenty of work to do.
--Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927)
English novelist and playwright.
"Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" [1886]

If you are idle, be not solitary;
if you are solitary, be not idle.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Letter to Boswell [27 October 1779].

I am weary of swords and courts and kings. Let us
go into the garden and watch the minister's bees.
--Mary Johnston (1870—1936)
American novelist.
_To Have and To Hold_, ch. IX [1899]

Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally
as worms are generated in a stagnant pool.
--Latin proverb
Quoted in Louis Klopsch _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 139 [1896].

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon
in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned
how to live.
--Lin Yutang (1895—1976)
Chinese writer and philogist.
_The Importance of Living_ [1937]

[Obituary of Calvin Coolidge:]
Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a
force of character, with such unremitting attention
to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the
task.
--Walter Lippmann (1889—1974)
American journalist.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the
trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or
watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means
waste of time.
--Sir John Lubbock (1834—1913)
The First Lord and Baron Avebury who was a
British banker, politician, and archaeologist.
_The Use of Life_, ch. IV "Recreation" [1894]

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
--Marya Mannes (1904—1990)
American writer and critic.
_But Will it Sell_ [1964]

Well, we can't stand around here doing
nothing, people will think we're workmen.
--Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (1918—2002)
Irish novelist, poet, musician, and comedian.
"The Goon Show" (radio comedy)

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"Inventory" [1926]

An idle brain is the Devil's workshop.
--William Perkins (1558—1602)
English clergyman.
_Works_ [1612—1613, 3 vols.]

First of all, then, Solon repealed all Draco's laws
because of their harshness and the excessively
heavy penalties they carried; the only exceptions
were the laws relating to homicide. Under the
Draconian code almost any offence was liable to
the death penalty, so that even those convicted
of idleness were executed, and those who stole
fruit or vegetables suffered the same punishment
as those who committed sacrilege or murder.
This is the reason why, in later times, Demades
became famous for his remark that Draco's code
was written not in ink but in blood. Draco himself,
when he was once asked why he had decreed the
death penalty for the great majority of offenses,
replied that he considered the minor ones deserved
it, and so for the major ones no heavier punishment
was left.
--Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?)
Greek philosopher and biographer.
_Parallel Lives_ "Solon",
in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004].

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the
saying 'Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands
to do.'
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
"In Praise of Idleness" [1932 essay]

If idleness does not produce vice or malevolence,
it commonly produces melancholy.
--Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist.
Attributed in _The Review of Education_ [May 1902].

Not only is he idle who is doing nothing,
but he that might be better employed.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 242 [1908 ed.].

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
To find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries!
--Robert Southey (1774—1843)
English poet.
_English Eclogues_, VIII, "The Wedding" [1800]

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
--Spanish proverb

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at
the end. It is not a day when you lounge around
doing nothing: it's when you've had everything to
do, and you've done it.
--attributed to Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990].

I pity the man overwhelmed with the weight of his own leisure.
--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.
Quoted in James Parton _Life of Voltaire_, p. 832 [6th ed. 1889].

In works of labour or of skill
I would be busy too:
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
--Isaac Watts (1674—1748)
English hymn writer.
"Against Idleness and Mischief" l. 11 in _Divine
and Moral Songs for Children_ [1715].

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gongoozler (noun) ['gahng-guz-lκ(r)]
An idle on-looker, a kibbitzer; someone
who stares protractedly at anything.



IGNORANCE

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see: "DULL"
see: "FOOLS"
see: "MEDIOCRITY"
see: "STUPIDITY"
see: "FAILURE" for other related links
see: "THE MIND" for other related links


To be ignorant of one's ignorance
is the malady of the ignorant.
--[Amos] Bronson Alcott (1799—1888)
American philosopher, teacher, and reformer;
father of Louisa May Alcott.
_Table Talk_, ch. 6 "Discourse" [1877]

The ordinary man doubts nothing and suspects nothing.
--Henri Frιdιrick Amiel (1821—1881)
Swiss critic.
_Journal Intime_ [1883]

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.
--Jane Austen (1775—1817)
English writer.
_Northanger Abbey_ [1818]

Positive in proportion to their ignorance.
--Maturin M. Ballou (1820—1895)
American writer and publisher.
_Aztec Land_ [1890]

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
--James Beattie (1735—1803)
Scottish poet and essayist.
_The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius_, bk II, st. 30 [1771—1772]

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
_Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit_ [1870]

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in
ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
--Saul Bellow (1915—2005)
Canadian-born American novelist.
_To Jerusalem and Back_ [1976]

Lawyers are the only persons in whom
ignorance of the law is not punished.
--attributed to Jeremy Bentham (1748—1832)
English philosopher.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate
among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford
among its citizens.
--William Henry Beveridge (1879—1963)
British economist.
_Full Employment in a Free Society_ [1944]

However big the fool, there is always
a bigger fool to admire him.
--Nicolas Boileau-Desprιaux (1636—1711)
French critic and poet.
_L'art poιtique_ [1674], canto 1

If you think education is expensive — try ignorance.
--Derek C. Bok (b. 1930)
American lawyer and educator.
Quoted in Paul Dickson _The Official Rules_ [1978].

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
_The Inn Album_[1875]

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A man of piety complained to the Baalshem, saying:
'I have laboured hard and long in the service of the
Lord, and yet I have received no improvement. I am
stil an ordinary and ignorant person.'

The Baalshem answered: 'You have gained the
realisation that you are ordinary and ignorant, and
this in itself is a worthy accomplishment.'

--Hasidic story,
in Martin Buber _Tales of the Hasidim_ [1948].

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The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
--Samuel Butler (1612—1680)
English poet and satirist.
"Hudibras" [1663]

It is always dangerous to offend the dignity of the ignorant.
--Renι Cailliι (1799—1838)
French explorer who was the first European to to visit Timbuktu and return.
Quoted in Galbraith Welch _The Unveiling of Timbuctoo_ [1939].

The multitudes remained plunged in ignorance of the
simplest economic facts, and their leaders, seeking
their votes, did not dare to undeceive them.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55].
_The Gathering Storm: The Second World War_ [1948-51]

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A man who knows the world will not only make the most
of everything he does know, but of many things he does
not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode
of hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward
attempt to exhibit his erudition.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, # CXLVII [1820]


It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least
of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family
of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each
other.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, # CCCCXLIII [1820]

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Real knowledge is to know
the extent of one's ignorance.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_

I seemed to have gained nothing in trying to educate myself
unless it was to discover more and more fully how ignorant I
was.
--Renι Descartes (1596—1650)
French philosopher and mathematician.
_Discourse on Method and the Meditations_ [1637],
tr. Laurence J. Lafleur [1964].

Genuine ignorance is more profitable because it is likely to
be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness;
whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar
propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind
with avarnish waterproof to new ideas.
--John Dewey (1859—1952)
American philosopher and educator.
_How We Think_ [1910]

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To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Sybil_, bk. I, ch. 5 [1845]


Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance,
for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Sybil_, bk. IV, ch. 5 [1845]

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He that knows least commonly presumes most.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732]

I have never met a man so ignorant that
I couldn't learn something from him.
--Galileo Galilei (1564—1642)
Tuscan astronomer and physicist.
Attributed in Laurence J. Peter _Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1993 ed.].

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Proverbs in Prose_ [1819]

[W]here ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" [1747]

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.
--Hugo Grotius (1583—1645)
Dutch philosopher. playwright, and poet.
Quoted in Bernard Lambert Meulenbroek
_The Poetry of Hugo Grotius_ , vol. 1, pt. 2 [1970].

Knowing what
thou knowest not
is in a sense
Omniscience.
--Piet Hein (1905—1996)
Danish poet and mathematician.
_Grooks_ [Cambridge, MIT Press, 1967]

Although it is better to hide our ignorance,
this is hard to do when we relax over wine.
--Heraclitus (c.535—475 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_Fragments_

[Of President George H. W. Bush:]
If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I
want drillin' rights on that man's head.
--Jim Hightower (b. 1943)
American syndicated columnist and populist activist.
Quoted in Molly Ivins _Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?_ [1991].

Far more crucial than what we know or do
not know is what we do not want to know.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms_ [1955]

The attacks upon the [Supreme] Court are merely an expression
of the unrest that seems to wonder vaguely whether law and
order pay. When the ignorant are taught to doubt, they do not
know what they safely may believe.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
_Law and the Court_ [1913]

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be
satisfied with your opinions and content
with your knowledge.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania".
"The Philistine" (mag.) [June 1897]

He does not weep who does not see.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
_Les Miserables_ [1862], "Jean Valjean"

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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote
from the truth who believes nothing, than he who
believes what is wrong.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
_Notes on the State of Virginia_ [1784], Query 6


If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,
in a state of civilization, it expects what
never was and never will be.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Colonel Charles Yancy [6 January 1816].

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
--Saint Jerome (c.340—420?)
Translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin.
_Letter 53_

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may
be properly charged with that evil which he neglected
or refused to learn how to prevent.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Rasselas_, ch. 30 [1759]

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
Speech at Rice University [12 September 1962].

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_Strength to Love_ [1963]

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead
is a muddlehead at the same time.
--Karl Kraus (1874—1936)
Austrian satirist.
_Aphorisms_

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without
discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
--Jean de La Fontaine (1621—1695)
French poet.
_Fables_, bk VIII, no. 10 [1668—1679]

His ignorance is encyclopedic.
--Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966)
Polish writer.
_Unkempt Thoughts_, tr. Jacek Galazka [1962]
(Also attributed to Abba Eban.)

A great part of mankind are ... unavoidably
given over to invincible ignorance.
--John Locke (1632—1704)
English political and educational philosopher.
_An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ [1690]

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
--John Lyly (1554?—1606)
English prose stylist and playwright.
Quoted in Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh _The English Novel_ [1894].

I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
--Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
English dramatist and poet.
"The Jew of Malta" prologue [c. 1592]

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and
with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-
failing sign of great self-ignorance.
--Rev. John Mason III (1706—1763)
Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer.
_A Treatise on Self-Knowledge_ [1803 ed.]

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
--Mignon McLaughlin (1913—1983)
American journalist and author.
_The Neurotic's Notebook_ [1963]

No one in this world, as far as I know ... has ever lost
money by underestimating the intelligence of the great
masses of the plain people.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
"Notes on Journalism" in _Chicago Tribune_ [19 September 1926].

In expanding the field of knowledge we
but increase the horizon of ignorance.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_The Wisdom of the Heart_ [1941]

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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy,
inquiry the process, ignorance the end.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [pub. 1580—1588], "Of Cripples"


Ignorance is the softest pillow on
which a man can rest his head.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
Attributed by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to E. Randolph [3 February 1794].

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
--Sir William Osler (1849—1919)
Canadian-born physician.
In the "Montreal Medical Journal" [1902].

There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail
to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle
is contempt prior to investigation.
--William Paley (1743—1805)
English theologian and philosopher.
Quoted in William Henry Poole
_Anglo-Israel; or, The British Nation The Lost Tribes of Israel_ [1879].

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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked
bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they
make in pouring it out.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_Miscellanies_, vol 2 [1727]


There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever,
in which the most ignorant were not the most violent.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1727]

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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our
ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
--Karl Popper (1902—1994)
Austrian-born British philosopher of science.
"On The So-Called Sources of Knowledge" in
_In Search of a Better World_ (essays) [1992].


Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active
aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from
cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.
--Karl Popper (1902—1994)
Austrian-born British philosopher of science.
As paraphrased by Ryszard Kapuscinski in
"The Philosopher as Giant-Slayer" in
_New York Times Magazine_ [1 January 1995].

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You know everybody is ignorant,
only on different subjects.
--Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935)
American humorist and actor.
In "New York Times" [31 August 1924].

A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant
has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in
the company of blind men.
--Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 1213—1292)
Iranian poet.
_The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_ [1258]

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men
know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will
plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.
--John Selden (1584—1654)
English historian.
_Table Talk_ [1689] "Law"

If one does not know to which port
one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistulae morales ad Lucilium_ [c. 65 A.D.]

... Accordingly I went to one [man] who had the reputation of
wisdom, and observed to him — his name I need not mention;
he was a politician whom I selected for examination — and the
result was as follows: When I began to talk with him, I could
not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was
thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went
and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but
was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated
me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present
and heard me. So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away:
Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything
really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is — for he
knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor
think that I know. In this latter particular, then, I seem to have
slightly the advantage of him. Then I went to another, who had
still higher philosophical pretensions, and my conclusion was
exactly the same. I made another enemy of him, and of many
others besides him.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
In Plato (427?—347 B.C.), _Apology_

A true and genuine Impudence is ever the Effect
of Ignorance, without the least Sense of it.
--Sir Richard Steele (1672—1729)
Irish-born essayist and dramatist.
23 March 1711 edition of "The Spectator" [pub. 1711—1712].

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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738]


It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and
malice together, because it gives his answerer double
work.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
Attributed in _Encyclopaedia Londinensis_ [1810].

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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance,
for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he
that can perceive it hath it not.
--Jeremy Taylor (1613—1667)
English Anglican clergyman and writer.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 244 [1908 ed.].

Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.
--Thucydides (c. 460—c. 400 B.C.)
Greek historian of Athens.
Quoted in James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient
and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 178 [1899].

When [ignorance] does not know something,
it says that what it does not know is stupid.
--Leo Tolstoy (1828—1910)
Russian novelist.
_A Confession_, ch. 7 [1882]

That is just the way with some people. They get down
on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ [1884]

We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a
sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows,
so does the shore of our ignorance.
--John A. Wheeler (1911—2008)
American theoretical physicist.
Quoted in "ASAP" [1998].

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861—1947)
British philosopher and mathematician.
Quoted in Warren W. Wiersbe _The Bible Exposition Commentary_ [2004].

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hebetude [HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood], noun:
Mental dullness or sluggishness.

ignoramus [ig-nuh-RAY-mus], noun:
An ignorant person; a dunce.

nescient (adj.) ['ne-shent, 'ne-si-yκnt]
Ignorant, lacking knowledge.



ILLEGAL ALIENS

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see: "IMMIGRATION"
see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links


Illegal aliens have always been a problem
in the United States. Ask any Indian.
--attributed to Robert Orben (b. 1927)
American magician and comedy writer.


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