 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1743 - 442 pages
...Phiiojvfiby, Inquifitim the Progrefs, and Ignorance the End, Ay, but there is 3 Sort of Ignorance ftrong and generous, that yields nothing in Honour and Courage...Knowledge ; an Ignorance, which to conceive, requires no lefs Knowledge than Knowledge it felf. I faw in my younger Years, a Report of&Procefs that Corrot a... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1759 - 512 pages
...eJieemed- Inquiry the Progrefs, and Ignorance the End. Nay in truth, there is a fort of Ignorance ftrong and generous, that yields nothing in Honour and Courage to Knowledge \ an Ignorance* of which to conceive, requires no Ch. XI. -Of Cripples. 325 no lefs Knowledge than to conceive of Knowledge... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1776 - 514 pages
...fophy, inquiry the progrefs, and ignorance the end. Nay in truth, there is a fort of ignorance - ftrong and generous, that yields nothing in honour and courage to knowledge ; an ignorance, ,of which to conceive, requires no lefs knowledge than to conceive of knowledge itfelf. I fay in my... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1811 - 556 pages
...admiration is e the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, and ignorance tne end. Nay in truth, there is a sort of ignorance strong and generous,...yields nothing in honour and courage to knowledge ; and ignorance, of which to conceive, requires no less knowledge than to conceive of knowledge itself.... | |
 | Delia Salter Bacon - 1857 - 706 pages
...expresses it, ' wonder is the seed of knowledge') — enquiry the progress — ignorance the end. Ay, but there is a sort of ignorance, strong and generous,...yields nothing in honour and courage to knowledge, a knowledge, which to conceive, requires no less knowledge than knowledge itself.' ' I saw, in my younger... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1859 - 524 pages
...Thaumantis ; 2 wonder is the foundation of all philosophy ; inquiry the progress ; ignorance the end. Ay, but there is a sort of ignorance, strong and generous, that yields nothing in honour and courage to knowl, n. .,..,_ speciem habet admirabihm. Thaumante IT! ģef '„ M ; "' / * /* - d'citur csse natua-''... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1870 - 700 pages
...Admiration is the foundation of all philosophy, inquisition the progress, and ignorance the end. Ay, but there is a sort of ignorance strong and generous,...yields nothing in honour and courage to knowledge; and ignorance, which to conceive, requires no less knowledge than knowledge it self. I saw, in my younger... | |
 | Quotations - 1873 - 530 pages
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 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1877 - 496 pages
...do, at ten. Whoever will be cured of ignorance, must confess it. Iris is the daughter of Thaumas ; * admiration is the foundation of all philosophy ; inquisition,...knowledge itself. I read in my younger years a trial that Coras,11 a counsellor 1 That is, of admiration (Qavfia, Oai^avrot). She (Iris, the rainbow) is beautiful,... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English literature - 1888 - 538 pages
...him back very soon to his " governing method, ignorance" — an ignorance " strong and generous, and that yields nothing in honour and courage to knowledge...no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge itself " — a sapient, instructed, shrewdly ascertained ignorance, suspended judgment, doubt everywhere.... | |
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But there is a sort of ignorance, strong and generous, that yields nothing in honour and courage to knowledge ; an ignorance which to conceive requires no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge itself. 
