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“Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 865.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d604f12769ce973e2d7bd24cbe694959711a415a2f59dca0504513661e668dcb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Be not ignorant of anything in a great matter or a small.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half…”
Francis Rabelais
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”
Sir William Davenant
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.”
Hesiod
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
John Dryden
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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