Lesson 11- Of Knowledge, Ignorance, and Error.

Of Knowledge, Ignorance, and Error.

1. Great is the hurt that hath chanced by Ignorance.
2. Ignorance is a madness of the Soul; which, while it labours to attain to Truth, is confounded in the knowledge of itself.
3. It is not possible for one man to know all things; yet should each man labour to know as much as he might.
4. An opinion without Learning cannot be good.
5. He that errs afore that he know the Truth, ought the sooner to be forgiven.
6. Error, at the end, is known to be evil; and Truth thereby is known much better.
7. It is a great shame for an old man to be ignorant.
8. There cannot be in a Ruler a worse thing than Ignorance.
9. The Ignorant, in their banquets, use Minstrelsy to cheer them; but the Learned, with their voices, delight one another.
10. He that is ignorant in the Truth, and led about with Opinions, must needs err.
11. To learn better, is a good punishment for Ignorance.
12. There is none so ignorant, as he that trusts most to his own wit; none so uncertain, as he that most trusts Fortune.
13. It is better to be ignorant in vile things.
14. Through lack of Wit springs much harm; and, by means of Ignorance, much good is left undone.
15. A false opinion doth great harm.
16. The boldness of the Ignorant engenders all evils.
17. It is a shame to be ignorant in that which every man ought to know.
18. It is better to be ignorant in vile things, than to know them.
19. Idleness engenders Ignorance; and Ignorance engenders Error.