Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

—Publilius Syrus

About Publilius Syrus

Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC) was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae. He was a Roman Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy. Syrus was brought to Rome on the same ship that brought a certain Manilius Antiochus, astronomer, and Staberius Eros the...

More quotations from Publilius Syrus

What is left when honor is lost?

—Publilius Syrus

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

—Publilius Syrus

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

—Publilius Syrus

Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

—Publilius Syrus

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

—Publilius Syrus

More quotations tagged with “ignorance”

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

—Laurence J. Peter

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