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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
English
Philosopher
Born:
Apr 27
,
1820
Died:
Dec 8
,
1903
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,
Our
,
Our Lives
,
Shortened
,
Lives
,
Universally
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ignorance
World
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Stupidity
Nothing
All The World
More
Sincere
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Conscientious
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Failure
Ignorance
Socialism
Envy
Virtue
Philosophy
Misery
Sharing
Equal
Gospel
Inherent
Creed
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
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge
Ignorance
Dangerous
More
Beware
False
Than
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
Truth
Ignorance
Will
Understanding
Disbelief
Always
Lack
Regardless
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Life
Success
You
Confidence
Ignorance
Sure
Success Is
Then
Need
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education
Ignorance
Own
Progressive
Our
Discovery
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