A Quote by Plato

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Paul Gascoigne

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

Thomas Jefferson

Better untaught than ill-taught.

Grenville Kleiser

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted. Even if one rates an unborn child less than a full-blown person, doesn't the unborn child rate slightly higher than vegetation?

Ann Coulter

Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Walter Raleigh

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Laozi

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Nicholas Ling

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

Leo Tolstoy

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

Kirby Larson

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Epicurus

A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.

Preston Sturges

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Jim Rohn

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

Clarence Thomas

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Robert Charles Wilson

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