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

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 ").

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.

Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity.

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.

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.

General Ignorance featured in every episode until the I ( ninth ) series, but from series 10 ( J ) it has ( so far ) been removed completely.

The latter has found that Pluralistic Ignorance can be caused by the structure of the underlying social network, not cognitive dissonance.

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.

He has written and broadcast extensively about his views of religion, spirituality, and the spirituality of science including the essays, " The Perimeter of Ignorance " and " Holy Wars ," both appearing in Natural History magazine and the 2006 Beyond Belief workshop.

It is also important to mention that Muhammad stated, and this statement has been authenticated by Sunnis and Shiites alike, that “ Whoever does not know the Imam of his Lifetime ( Hadith of the Current Imam: i. e., recognizes same ) has died the death of Ignorance ”.

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.

The great majority of the authors belonged to the days of Jahiliyyah or Ignorance, and though a certain number ( e. g. Mutammim ibn Nuwayrah, Rabi ' a ibn Maqrum, Abda ibn at-Tabib and Abu Dhu ' ayb ), born in paganism, accepted Islam, their work bears few marks of the new faith.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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