The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. – Aldous Huxley
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. – Aldous Huxley
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. – Aldous Huxley
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