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#1

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

tags: ignorance, nature

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#2

“Beware the man of a single book.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation

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#3

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#4

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#5

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#6

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#7

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#8

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

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#9

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

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