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 a state of being uninformed ( lack of knowledge ).

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

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

Ignorance about an issue is said to be " rational " when the cost of educating oneself about the issue sufficiently to make an informed decision can outweigh any potential benefit one could reasonably expect to gain from that decision, and so it would be irrational to waste time doing so.

All the errors of natural thinking and psychology must fall under one or other of three topics: Knowing and the Known, Ignorance, and Being.

Muslim tradition maintains that Waraqa was one of the believers in the Age of Ignorance, meaning that he was a believer before the prophecy of Muhammad.

John Rawls ' Veil of Ignorance asks us to place ourselves in the position of the people our decisions may influence.

* Ignorance Is Bliss: talks about our time, and how sad people are in comparison to ancient and simpler times, and the possibility of change for good to a simple way of life.

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.

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

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 ).

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.

Writer Thomas Pynchon articulated about the scope and structure of one's ignorance: " Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person's mental map.

Ignorance can stifle learning, in that a person who falsely believes he or she is knowledgeable will not seek out clarification of his or her beliefs, but rather rely on his or her ignorant position.

Whereas in the main rounds of the show, the panellists ' use of buzzers is not usually enforced, the " General Ignorance " questions are introduced by Fry's reminder to keep " fingers on buzzers ".

The first QI book was 2006's The Book of General Ignorance, published in hardback on 5 October by Faber and Faber.

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.

Pocket-sized and audio versions of General Ignorance went on sale the following year.

QIs second book, The Book of Animal Ignorance, was released in the UK ( in the same hardback format ) by Faber & Faber almost exactly a year after the first General Ignorance, on 4 October 2007.

But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny -- Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.

Syslog-ng store box ( SSB ) is a logserver appliance based on syslog-ng with features of log collection, relaying, log routing, log tagging and classification or performing Artificial Ignorance.

On January 29, 2008, Face to Face announced on their official website that the band — featuring the Ignorance is Bliss line-up ( though refusing to play any material from the album itself according to an interview on the Face to Face Myspace page ) — would be reuniting for select shows in the US and internationally.

He is the inventor of the Ignorance Index, an empirical rating system for talk shows on radio and television.

A review on the pro-evolution website talk. origins, described the book as "... an exposition of the Frontiers of Ignorance " and that within it systems were labeled " irreducibly complex " if Behe was not able to envision a simpler system that still worked.

The Tools of Ignorance was released on January 31, 2011.

" Knowledge, Ignorance, and Government Schools ", The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, June, Vol.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, she appeared on many radio programmes including: " Ignorance is Bliss ," " Geraldo's Open House ," " Taxi " with Jerry Verno, " Desert Island Discs ," " Talk Yourself Out of This ," and she appeared twice on the " Calling All Forces " show.