Samuel Johnson Quotes

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

There is no sin but ignorance.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

The offence is, in some measure, to be tolerated in those who did it through ignorance, so it is to be rigorously punished in those who do not fear to sin knowingly

if you do countenance those that are transgressors of the law you are in the same fact.

No legislation can suppress nature …. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE