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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. - Tobias Smollett

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett

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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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A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous. – Author unknown, from The Galveston Daily News, 1894 June 10th

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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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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. – Norman Juster

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