I believe that Thucydides' statement: "Ignorance makes people bold, but reflection makes them indecisive" is false. First, let's understand the meaning of the word ignorance. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge.
The author says that when a person does not know what awaits him ahead, he boldly takes action, but when he has certain information, it confuses him. A person understands the danger of what is coming, and ponders whether it is worth doing or not.
But I think Thucydides is wrong.
After all, a bold act is a conscious step. A brave person is one who knows what he is doing and what the consequences may be. But he takes this step not for himself, but for the sake of those around him. This is exactly what courage is.
Let's look at such a literary character as Andrei Bolkonsky from the work “War and Peace”. He decided on a desperate act to protect his homeland, to save his comrades. But do you really think that he did this out of ignorance of what it might entail? He knew! This is what makes him brave.
So, a brave person is one who has complete information, but still takes risks, and first of all, not for his own sake, but for the sake of those around him.
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Lucian
The wise speak, but the ignorant decide.
Anacharsis
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Aristippus
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O. Balzac
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G. Buckle
We prefer to remain ignorant rather than admit it.
J Bossuet
Ignorance is the best science in the world; it comes without difficulty and does not sadden the soul.
D. Bruno
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P. Buast
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F. Bacon
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F. Bacon
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Voltaire
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Voltaire
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G. Galileo
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P. Gassendi
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K. Helvetius
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K. Helvetius
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K. Helvetia
In ignorance, the mind languishes for lack of food.
K. Helvetius
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Heraclitus
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Heraclitus
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I. Goethe
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P. Holbach
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I. Gofmiller
Where ignorance is bliss, stupidity is wisdom.
D. Gray
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V. Hugo
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V. Hugo
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C. Darwin
Ignorance never asks questions.
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N. Dobrolyubov
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V. Zubkov
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The antidote to ignorance is education, with which the souls of young people should be nourished in schools.
J. Komensky
What is a handsome ignoramus but a parrot adorned with feathers?
J. Komensky
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E. Condillac
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J. Labruyère
There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend.
J. Lafontaine
Ignorance is less distant from the truth than prejudice.
V. Lenin
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M. Lomonosov
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Lucian
An uncouth blockhead is never on the side of mastery, he is always against it, and it is precisely the fundamentals of the fundamentals that give the first, most approximate form that seem especially unnatural to him.
T. Mann
Ignorance is a demonic force, and we fear it will cause many more tragedies.
K. Marx
Ignorance is of two kinds: one - illiterate, precedes knowledge; the other, swaggering, follows him.
M. Montaigne
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M. Montaigne
An ignoramus has a great advantage over an educated person: he is always pleased with himself.
Napoleon
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
W. Alger
Ignorance makes a person indifferent to the world, and indifference grows slowly but irreversibly, like a cancerous tumor.
K. Paustovsky
The tumor of incompetence is not one that can be removed with a scalpel.
L. Peter
An ignorant person is someone who talks about what he does not know.
M. Prishvin
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A. Reyhani
It is not the seas that divide peoples, but ignorance, not differences in language, but hostile relations.
D. Ruskin
Our lives are shortened by ignorance. We must strive to understand our nature and the world around us. We must establish the conditions of existence and find ways to apply them.
G. Spencer
Ignorance is not an argument.
B. Spinoza
Ignorant and depraved people cannot be controlled either by justice or by reason: they rebel not so much against the evil that is done to them, but rather against the good that they want to do to them.
A. Steel
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D. Fonvizin
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Thucydides
There are three types of ignorance: not knowing anything, knowing badly what everyone knows, and knowing something that should not be known.
Cicero
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a moonless and starless night.
Cicero
The state and property of an ignoramus is to never expect either benefit or harm from oneself, but always from external things.
Epictetus
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-Thucydides, ancient Greek historian-
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The ocean is a confluence of water circumstances.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Darkness also spreads at the speed of light.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Science is the best way to satisfy personal curiosity at public expense.
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- Listen, I have to tell you that your friend...
“Wait, wait,” says Socrates, “have you sifted what you want to say through three sieves?”
- Which?
- The first is the sieve of truth. Are you saying this is true?
- I don’t know, that’s what I heard.
- Enough! Have you sifted it through the sieve of kindness? Is what you really want to tell me something creative or good?
- I don’t know, probably not.
- Then we’ll sift through another sieve, is it really necessary for you to tell me about this?
- No, there is no need for this.
- And that means, if there is no need, no truth, no kindness in this, do not burden either me or yourself.
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