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.

Ignorance ( avijjā ) is its hub ( or nave ) because it is its root.

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

Jahiliyyah ( / " ignorance ") is an Islamic concept of " ignorance of divine guidance " or " the state of ignorance of the guidance from God " or " Days of Ignorance " referring to the condition in which Arabs found themselves in pre-Islamic Arabia, i. e. prior to the revelation of the Quran to Muhammad.

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

Beveridge recommended to the government that they should find ways of tackling the five giants, being Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

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.

* Ignorance of selective breeding goals and techniques, and lack of familiarity with the breed standard of the type of animal being bred.

In a parody of ubiquitous general knowledge quizzes, the final round is off-topic and called " General Ignorance ", focusing upon seemingly easy questions which have obvious but wrong answers.

The leading contradiction which is corrected in the Agnoiology or Theory of Ignorance claims that there can be an ignorance of that of which there can be no knowledge.

It is corrected by appealing to the fact that Ignorance is a defect, and argues that there is no defect in not knowing what cannot be known by any intelligence ( for example, that two and two make five ), and therefore there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge, that is, of some-object-plus-some-subject.

: " Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Although the Dunning – Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger have quoted Charles Darwin (" Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge ") and Bertrand Russell (" One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision ") as authors who have recognised the phenomenon.

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 ).

Homer Lea ’ s principal writings included three books, The Vermilion Pencil ( 1908 ), The Valor of Ignorance ( 1909 ), and The Day of the Saxon ( 1912 ).

* Any massively promoted versions of historical or present " facts " ( e. g. " General Ignorance " from QI, where the questions have seemingly obvious answers, which are actually wrong ).

Science fiction writer David Barr Kirtley examined this concept in his short story, " Veil of Ignorance " ( available online ).

She was nursed by two other nymphs Inebriation and Ignorance, her faithful companions include Philautia ( self-love ), Kolakia ( flattery ), Lethe ( oblivion ), Misoponia ( laziness ), Hedone ( pleasure ), Anoia ( madness ), Tryphe ( wantonness ) and two gods Komos ( intemperance ) and Eegretos Hypnos ( dead sleep ).

Ignorance is Strength details the perpetual class struggle characteristic of human societies ; beginning with the historical observation that societies always have hierarchically divided themselves into social classes and castes: the High ( who rule ); the Middle ( who work for, and yearn to supplant the High ), and the Low ( whose goal is quotidian survival ).

Ignorance is Bliss is an album by the punk rock group Face to Face, released in 1999 ( see 1999 in music ).

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

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 ).

they will destroy the shrines, temples, museums, and churches of the state that is the implacable enemy of the life they believe in.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

he displays what outlanders call the New York mind, a state that the subject is necessarily unable to perceive in himself.

Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.

Actually it amounts to $1,250,000 above what the institution already is receiving, considering the additional half-million dollars Gov. Vandiver allocated last year from the state surplus.

Why, then, with these voluntary barricades and some state laws barring liquor ads, is it necessary to seek congressional action??

Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.

But there is hope, for Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its park space.

The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital.

An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.

There is no charge and no state aid.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!

Purchase of state vehicles is handled similarly to all state purchases.