Quote #14
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
More from St. Jerome
- That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
- Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
- No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
- Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
- Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
- The scars of others should teach us caution.