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Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. – Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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The most violent element in society is ignorance. – Emma Goldman

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Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey

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History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

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