Ignorance is bold, and takes high but useless flights; true knowledge is modest, and limits her flight to what she knows she can accomplish safely.


The Great Stone Book of Nature, The Book of Nature (p. 5), Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1864

David T. Ansted Quotes

Ignorance is bold, and takes high but useless flights; true knowledge is modest, and limits her flight to what she knows she can accomplish safely.

Ignorance is bold, and takes high but useless flights; true knowledge is modest, and limits her flight to what she knows she can accomplish safely.

Ignorance is bold, and takes high but useless flights; true knowledge is modest, and limits her flight to what she knows she can accomplish safely.

Ignorance is bold, and takes high but useless flights; true knowledge is modest, and limits her flight to what she knows she can accomplish safely.