Civilization Quote by Honore de Balzac

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.

— Proverb

Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end, Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must its ignorant…

— Herman Melville

The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization…

— Carl L. Becker

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of…

— Bill Watterson

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable…

— Pope Gregory VII

...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing…

— Pope Dionysius

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far…

— Anonymous

If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from…

— Roger Williams

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand