Tacitus Quotes

We never knew how much we did not know.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

The less we know the more we suspect

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

You see, we didn't know.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Innocence is ignorance.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.