Cotton Mather - Ah! destructive Ignorance, wha...

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Cotton Mather

American Theologian

Born: Feb 12, 1663

Died: Feb 13, 1728

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Ignorance, World, Out, Destructive, Shall, Chase, Done, Thee

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance World Dangerous Stupidity Nothing All The World More Sincere Than Conscientious

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius

Knowledge Ignorance Know Real Real Knowledge Extent

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill

Truth Ignorance Truth Is Attack Malice End May In The End Incontrovertible

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

Class Property Justice Ignorance Will Made Conspiracy Poverty Society Neither Degrade Prevails Feel Rob Safe Nor Oppress Denied Any Where Them Persons Enforced Organized

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. Isaac Asimov

Life Good Democracy Knowledge Ignorance Political Our Nurtured Way States Has-Been Constant Thread Winding Through Always Cult Been Cultural False Just Strain Means Your Notion United United States