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    “The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
    ― Sir William Osler
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    “its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored”
    ― Adnan Safi
    tags: idia, ignorance, ignored, people
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    Stephen Colbert
    “Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we'd be crippled with indecision. But with religion pointing the way, we can feel confident in our choice to picket our children's elementary school when we find out the art teacher is gay.”
    ― Stephen Colbert, I Am America
    tags: blame, hate, humor, ignorance, religion, responsibility, satire
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    Kelli Jae Baeli
    “I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.”
    ― Kelli Jae Baeli
    tags: ignorance, intelligence
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    Hendrik Willem van Loon
    “Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.”
    ― Hendrick Willem Van Loon
    tags: education, hendrick-van-loon, ignorance, society, willful-ignorance
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    Aldous Huxley
    “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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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Gore Vidal
    “I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Death Before Bedtime
    tags: america, americans, ignorance, murica, society-thinking
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    Maya Angelou
    “Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: ignorance, meaning, names, root, society, stain, words
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
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    Pablo Picasso
    “It takes a very long time to become young.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: ignorance, innocence, knowledge, wisdom, youth
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    Vera Nazarian
    “It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.

    Ignorance is our deepest secret.

    And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.

    Here is a quick test:

    If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

    Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.

    It will do both of you good.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: adapt, adaptability, assimilate, assimilation, beliefs, change, discovery, ignorance, ignorant, incorporating, introspection, learning, mutability, new, new-thought, open, open-mind, open-minded, open-mindedness, ponder, question, questioning, questions, re-evaluating, receptive, rethink, rethinking, secret, think, thinking, wise
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.”
    ― Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving & Learning
    tags: influence, prejudice
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    Emma Goldman
    “Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: bigotry, independent-thought, prejudice
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
    tags: paradoxes, prejudice
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    Blaise Pascal
    “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader
    tags: attractivenessiveness, beliefs, evidence, persuasion, prejudice, proof, subjectivity
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    “I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”
    ― Clint Eastwood
    tags: insecurity, prejudice
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    Romain Rolland
    “Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”
    ― Romain Rolland, Above The Battle
    tags: dialogue, discussion, prejudice, truth
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    tags: opinion, prejudice
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    “A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.”
    ― Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things
    tags: opinion, prejudice, speech
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    Anthony McGowan
    “Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.”
    ― Anthony McGowan, Henry Tumour
    tags: prejudice
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    Yanko Tsvetkov
    “The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.”
    ― Yanko Tsvetkov
    tags: humor, prejudice, stereotype
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    Charles S. Weinblatt
    “Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.”
    ― Charles S. Weinblatt
    tags: attitude, bigotry, equality, justice, philosophy, politics, prejudice, psychology, sociology, war
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    Clamp
    “If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.”
    ― CLAMP
    tags: clamp, facts, prejudice, search, truth
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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.”
    ― Charles H. Spurgeon
    tags: c-h-spurgeon, prejudice
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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