So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.—Jeremy Taylor.
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.—Ovid.
Ignorance.—Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.—Sydney Smith.
There is no calamity like ignorance.—Richter.
'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must be the multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much exceeds that of the wise. As if anything were so common as ignorance!—Montaigne.
Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a capital offense.—Joubert.
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.—Coleridge.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.—Alcott.
The true instrument of man's degradation is his ignorance.—Lady Morgan.
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.—George Eliot.