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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Worldlings revelling in the fields Of strenuous idleness. Wordsworth—This Lawn, a Carpet all alive. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Book of Wisdom, Horace) IGNORANCE Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. Beatcte—The Minstrel. Bk. II. St. 30. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. | author = Burton | work = Anatomy of Melancholy. | place = Pt. III. Sec. IV. Memb. 1. Subsect. 2. Phrase used by Dr. Cole—Disputation with the Papists at Westminster, March 31, 1559. Quoted from Cole by Bishop Jewel— Works. Vol. III. Pt. II. P. 1202. Quoted as a "Popish maxim" by Thos. Vincent— Explicatory Catechism. Epistle to the Reader about 1622. Said by Jeremy Taylor— To a person newly converted to the Church of England. (1657) Same found in New Custome. I. I. A Morality printed 1573. (True devotion.)

| seealso = (See also {{sc|Dryden}}) The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. Butler—Hudibras. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit. In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. Cicero—De Divinatione. II. 22. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur. Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. Cicero—De Fmibus Bonorum et Malorwm. I.. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam. I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. Cicero—Tusc. Quasi. I. 25. 60. Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. Coleridge—Essay XVI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ignorance never settles a question. Benj. Disraeli—Speech in House of Commons, May 14, 1866. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. Benj. Disraeli—Sybil. Bk. IV. Ch. V. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. Dryden—The Maiden Queen. Act I. Sc. 2. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burton}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot—Daniel Deronda. Bk. II. Ch. XIII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Politics. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high. Fuller—Andronicus. Sec. VI. Par. 18. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit. There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. Goethe—Spruche in Prosa. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. | author = Goldsmith | work = Deserted Village. L. 61. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Gray—On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. St. 10. Same idea in Euripides—Fragment. Antip. XIII. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Prior}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 153 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Hood—/ Remember, I Remember. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. Samuel Johnson, in reply to the lady who asked why "pastern" was defined in the dictionary as "the knee of the horse." Boswell's—Life. (1755) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami: Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. La Fontaine—Fables. VIII. 10. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 385 }}