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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
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
Anyway, 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.
P. J. O'Rourke
Love
Ignorance
People
Stupidity
Power
Looking
Greed
Society
Alcohol
Our
Troubles
Test
Causes
Source
Anyway
Them
Should
Even
Ills
Fundamental
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship
Knowledge
Ignorance
True Friendship
Darkness
Depend
True
True Knowledge
Does
Afford
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Great
Ignorance
Intelligence
Illusion
Great Deal
Invested
Deal
Deep
Need
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi
Wisdom
Ignorance
Charity
Fear
Neither
Nor
Where
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
Knowledge
Ignorance
Medium
Between
Opinion
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
God
Knowledge
Ignorance
Fly
Wing
Heaven
Curse
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
Wisdom
Democracy
Ignorance
Collective
Individual
Pathetic
Belief
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom
Knowledge
Ignorance
Own
Our
Temple
Doorstep
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Henry Rollins
Ignorance
Racism
Desperation
Will
Cruelty
Society
Weakness
Brutality
Foot
Nailed
Ground
Chained
Keep
Floor
Things
Brings
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Knowledge
Confidence
Ignorance
Science
Problem
Will
Positively
Those
Solved
More
Never
Know
Frequently
Does
Begets
Than
Little
Much
Who
Assert
There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
Ignorance
Darkness
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin
Justice
Ignorance
Enemy
Power
Case
Allied
Most
Ferocious
Any
Certain
We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.
Mike Barnicle
Ignorance
Culture
People
Social Media
Live
Everyone
Mindless
Spill
Shaped
Anonymously
Opinion
Lot
Situations
Where
Social
Much
Meanness
Across
View
Media
Assessment
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
Ignorance
Peace
Master
Our
Possibility
Real
Where
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
Ignorance
Whatever
Dictated
Itself
Reason
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
will.i.am
Politics
You
Business
Ignorance
People
Whatever
Rule
Corrupt
Line
Uneducated
Goes
Want
Manipulate
Illiterate
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