Better to have honest nescience than to have militant ignorance.
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Nescience
//ˈnɛʃəns//
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Bulgarian
1 entries- неведение noun (The absence of knowledge)
Czech
1 entries- neznalost noun (The absence of knowledge)
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To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.
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Many a day we had been twenty-two out of the twenty-four hours in the saddle, each taking it in turn to lead through the darkness while the others let their heads nod forward over the pommel in nescience.
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Algernon, in a condition of masculine nescience, lets himself become engaged to a woman of whom he knows nothing.
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