Showing posts with label ignorance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ignorance. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Daily Dose


From The Dunciad, by Alexander Pope

SEE

"How little, see! that portion of the ball,
Where faint at best the beams of science fall!"

From Book the Third

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Daily Dose

From The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell

IGNORANCE

"Mankind has a great aversion to intellectual labor; even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

From Samuel Johnson, May 24, 1763