Environment Quote by Seneca the Younger

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.

— Alistair Begg

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

— Rosamond Lehmann

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

— Mark Twain

“He didn't notice me at first. They never do. That's one of the things about being plain—you often get ignored.”

— Samantha Warren

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of…

— Peter Carey

There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for…

— Ellen Goodman

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if…

— Plato

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

— Thomas Jefferson

“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will…

— Pierre De Fermat

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

— Tacitus