Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion.
(Philip Wylie – American Writer)
12-May-1902 : 25-Oct-1971
Frances Wright Quotes – If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
(Frances Wright – Scottish Writer)
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Frances Wright Quotes – If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
(Frances Wright – Scottish Writer)
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Chauncey Wright Quotes – We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
(Chauncey Wright – American Philosopher)
10-Sep-1830 : 12-Sep-1875
Mary Wortley Quotes – There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
(Mary Wortley – English Royalty)
26-May-1689 : 21-Aug-1762