Quotes About Ignorance
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ―
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
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“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
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“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
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“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”
― Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
― Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
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