Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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... There is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
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No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
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.. The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.
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One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
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Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
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When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
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Humans see what they want to see.
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A man is responsible for his ignorance.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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