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François Rabelais

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Biography - François Rabelais:

French Renaissance writer *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: 1494 - Died: 1553
Period:
15th century
Place of birth: France
France

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'ignorance est mère de tous les maux.

German
Unwissenheit ist die Mutter aller Übel.




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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.




Quotes for: evil


Quotes

Quotes for: evil


The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.





Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.





What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.





Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.











Quotes for: ignorance


Quotes

Quotes about ignorance:


The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.





All I know is that I know nothing.





Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.





Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato / 





To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.





The only way to avoid error is ignorance.











Quotes

François Rabelais also said...


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





To laugh is proper to man.





Hours were made for man, not man for hours.





Everything comes in time to those who can wait.





All things move onward to their term.





Misery is the company of lawsuits.












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