Ignorance of the law is no better excuse on the water than it is on land ; ;

* Ignorance is bliss

The two Iowa cases of State v. Ellis and State v. Striggles are both used in classes on criminal law to illustrate the concept of reliance upon authority as it relates to the axiomatic ignorantia juris non excusat (" Ignorance of the law is no excuse ").

Ignorance is an evil, but is merely the absence of knowledge, which is good ; disease is the absence of health ; callousness an absence of compassion.

US Olympic officials, including former teammate and later president of the IOC Avery Brundage, rebuffed several attempts, with Brundage once saying, " Ignorance is no excuse.

; Ignorantia legis non excusat: " Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

# Ignorance ( It is impossible to anticipate everything, thereby leading to incomplete analysis )

The Ghost of Christmas Present appears before the Ghost of Christmas Past, and no reference is made to Scrooge's nephew Fred or the metaphorical children Ignorance and Want.

** Meaning: Ignorance is bliss.

Stanley Henning's article, " Ignorance, Legend and Taijiquan " is critical of the myth that Zhang San Feng created Tai Chi Chuan, and asserts that it is very likely that Zhang never existed.

* Ignorance is Bliss

" Apelles seemed to have had a taste for elaborate allegory and personification, which he carried far in his rendering of Calumny, described by Lucian, in which an innocent youth is falsely accused by Ignorance, Envy, Treachery and Deceit.

In his own words, " Ignorance is the foundation of atheism, and freethinking the cure of it " ( Discourse of Freethinking, 105 ).

# Ignorance luck, that is, luck with factors one does not know about.

) The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God

* February 3-Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson / Jones masque, is staged at Whitehall.

Ignorance is a state of being uninformed ( lack of knowledge ).

Ignorance is distinguished from stupidity, although both can lead to " unwise " acts.

Roughly a century before Copernicus, Christian scholar Nicholas of Cusa also proposed that the Earth rotates on its axis in his book, On Learned Ignorance ( 1440 ).

Most of the book's facts and clarifications have appeared on the programme, including its list of 200 popular misconceptions, many of which featured during the " General Ignorance " rounds.

More specifically, in Islamic thought, they are the people who, during the period known as the Age of Ignorance, were seen to have rejected idolatry and retained some or all of the tenets of the religion of Ibrahim which was " submission to God " ( Arabic: Allah ) in its purest form.

When this has come to pass, God will bring upon the whole world the Great Ignorance, that everything may like being the way it is, and that nothing may desire anything contrary to its nature.

Sri Aurobindo defined integral yoga in the early 1900s as " a path of integral seeking of the Divine by which all that we are is in the end liberated out of the Ignorance and its undivine formations into a truth beyond the Mind, a truth not only of highest spiritual status but of a dynamic spiritual self-manifestation in the universe.

Scrooge's fiancee, who eventually leaves him because of his miserly ways, was completely dropped from the film, as were the two starving children " Want " and " Ignorance ", who hid within the folds of the Ghost of Christmas Present's robe.

Ignorance on this point has caused a great deal of needless anxiety, misunderstanding and suspicion.

The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, Pharaoh's Host Drowned in the Red Sea ( after Titian ), the Triumph of Caesar ( after Mantegna ), and Christ retiring from the judgment-seat of Pilate after a relief by Giambologna.

Ignorance ( Pali: avijja ) can be defined as ignorance of the meaning and implication of the four noble truths.

* Ignorance ( Sanskrit: avidya or moha ): misunderstanding of the nature of reality ; bewilderment.

Ignorance ') A compilation of many major 1980s media appearances by Zeena Schreck during her time as High Priestess of the Church of Satan.

Failure to do so, the writer implies through the personification of Ignorance and Want as ghastly children, will result in an unnamed " Doom " for those who, like Scrooge, believe their wealth and status qualifies them to sit in judgement of the poor rather than to assist them.

The ghost also warns him of the evils of Ignorance and Want.

On the way, Christian and Hopeful meet a lad named Ignorance, who believes that he will be allowed into the Celestial City through his own good deeds rather than as a gift of God's grace.

Ignorance persists in his own way that leads to his being cast into hell.

After getting over the River of Death on the ferry boat of Vain Hope without overcoming the hazards of wading across it, Ignorance appears before the gates of Celestial City without a passport, which he would have acquired had he gone into the King's Highway through the Wicket Gate.

The Lord of the Celestial City orders shining ones to take Ignorance to one of the byways to hell and throw him in.

Ignorance of dharma will occur.

Ignorance of Armfelt and his accomplishments persisted for well over a century in Sweden and not until recently has a more nuanced, positive approach to Armfelt emerged there.

Systems of government are dynamic and they are bound to change in accordance with the wishes of and aspirations of the people ... During my term of office, I selflessly dedicated myself to the good cause of Mother Malawi in the fight against Poverty, Ignorance and Disease among many other issues ; but if within the process, those who worked in my government or through false pretence in my name or indeed unknowingly by me, pain and suffering was caused to anybody in this country in the name of nationhood, I offer my sincere apologies.

Nirvāṇa is not a concrete place, such as a heaven, but the antinomy of samsāra ( see below ) which itself is synonymous with ignorance ( avidyā, Pāli avijjā ):

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

There is unceasing pressure, but its sources are immediate.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.

Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.

This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.

What one actually remembers is its greenness.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.