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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.”

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Book:Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

Source: Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

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Author:John Wayne

“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.”

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Book:The People Of The Lie

Source: The People Of The Lie

“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.”

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Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.”

Source: Principia Humanitas

“In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.”

Source: Principia Humanitas

“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion are bad — is extremely untruthful and makes the person making the statement lose credibility right away. We are all flawed and even nature is flawed. Nobody is perfect, and no country, race or religion is perfect. Duality and polarity are imprinted in everything in nature — in all humans, and even within ourselves. For example, there are those who are ignorant, and those who are wise.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“He is: frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.”

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Book:The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

Source: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother