A Quote by H. L. Mencken
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.
Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!
There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!
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