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    Carl Sagan
    “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society
    1763 likes

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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
    10515 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance
    853 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: ignorance, peace
    122 likes

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    Herbert M. Shelton
    “It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
    ― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
    tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination, propaganda
    104 likes

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    Richard Dawkins
    “Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: children, critical-thinking, indoctrination
    700 likes

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    A.J. Darkholme
    “Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.”
    ― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
    tags: action, authority, experimentation, gullibility, hearing, inaction, learning, lesson, lessons, listening, practice, teaching, truth, understanding
    10 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    225 likes

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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
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    Marianne Williamson
    “From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.”
    ― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
    tags: enlightenment, love, potential, present-moment
    38 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: activity, ae, afresh, benefit, enlightenment, fresh, help, ideas, ignorance, knowledge, learning, new-things, nurture, reading, recreation, self-help, unlearn, well-being, yoga
    19 likes

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  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humour, men, slavery, slaves
    929 likes

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    Lord Byron
    “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
    ― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
    tags: bigotry, fools, freedom, life, reason, slavery
    822 likes

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  • #14
    Frederick Douglass
    “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: abolition, human-rights, politics, slavery, suffrage
    649 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: critical-thinker, critical-thinking, democracy, education, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-the-press, freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, independent-thinking, independent-thought, indocrination, liberation, mental-slavery, slavery
    87 likes

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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
    ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    tags: bravery, fear, perseverence, strength
    1401 likes

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    Stuart Chase
    “Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
    ― Stuart Chase, Language in Thought and Action
    tags: common-sense, misattributed-to-einstein
    337 likes

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    René Descartes
    “Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
    ― Rene Descartes
    tags: common-sense, humor, irony
    369 likes

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    Ludwig von Mises
    “Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
    ― Ludwig von Mises
    tags: common-sense, directional, hard-work
    316 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: common-sense, education
    163 likes

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  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: enlightenment, freedom, peace
    299 likes

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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
    4184 likes

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  • #23
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
    3376 likes

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  • #24
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
    1635 likes



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