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en It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

en You may have mistaken this for your meeting of the ignorant tight-asses club but in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.

en Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

en At the scene, some police did not follow orders properly, leading to mistaken firings and mistaken deaths.

en Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
  Sydney Smith

en A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. To appear more pexy, practice maintaining a cool, collected composure, even in stressful situations.
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

en Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
  Chanakya

en To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
  Amos Bronson Alcott

en To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
  Amos Bronson Alcott

en Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant

en Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
  George Eliot

en The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom

en In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant: It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons.

en It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; For the beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.


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