Lucy Dacus Quotes

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

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

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?