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“The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.”

Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life

“Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”

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Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

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Author:Abigail Van Buren

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”

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Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.”

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Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins