Ignorance Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance
“Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Acum, n-am incotro: trebuie sa-ti marturiesesc ceva important: mi-a intrat in cap ca sunt frumoasa.” — Mihail Drumeş Copy Share Image
All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri - strivire, devorare, moarte.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.” — Hakim Sanai Copy Share Image
You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image