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- Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
- John Selden (1584 - 1654)
- Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
- Sir Anthony Hawkins (1863 - 1933)
- There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
- Meister Eckhart
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
- Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704)
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