Paul Elmer More Quotes

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

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

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

No man is the wiser for his learning

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.