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Letter "I" » Ignorance
«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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About:
Ignorance
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Keywords:
agnostic,
agnostics,
burned,
burned at the stake,
burning at the stake,
decencies,
decency,
explorer,
explorers,
fanatics,
menace,
menaced,
menaces,
menacing,
observed,
pretensions,
skeptics,
stake,
staked,
suffered,
The Menace,
The Skeptic
«Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.»
«Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down»
«I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance»
«Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value»
«I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Lawyer,
Orator,
Scholar,
Statesman,
Writer)
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About:
Ignorance,
Knowledge
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Keywords:
ignorant,
loquacity,
prefer,
tied,
tied up,
tie up,
tongue,
Tongue Tied,
tying
«I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Affection,
Art,
Ignorance,
Knowledge
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Keywords:
affection,
chattering,
chatters,
hands,
ignorance,
imagine,
the Wash,
wash,
wash out
«I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it»
«Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it»
«I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.»