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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Quotes about ignorance

"If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people."
--Victor Cousin

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
--Harlan Ellison
 
“We kill all the caterpillars and complain that there are no butterflies.”
--John Marsden
 
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
--Hippocrates
 
“Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
--Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
 
“Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.”
--Jonathan Hennessey