Herbert Spencer Ignorance Quotations

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance

There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation