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“It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.”

Matter Ignorance Illusion Convince Transient Convince Us

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.”

Source: The Read-aloud Handbook

“Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.”

Persons Understanding Ignorance Weak Convince Gullibility

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego.”

Firsts Doe Made Self Culture Identity Ignorance Fit Creatures Ego Glory Slavery Islam Believer Convince Despise Worthless Submission Deities Muhammad Satanic Alter Ego

Author:Ali Sina

“Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.”

School Team Ignorance Months Balls Despite Convince Coward Mates Fierce Rugby Team Mate Ignorance And Fear Playing Rugby

Author:Peter Cook

“To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.”

People Firsts Country Interest Changed Ignorance Prejudice Convince Remove Customs Enlightening

Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.”

Men Fall Wise Ignorance Proof Ignorant Reasoning Convince

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.”

Ifs Done Facts Truth Belief Causes Leader Ignorance Theory Drug Disease Convince Mortality Indifferent Mischief Prescriptions Multiplying Convince Us Dissection

Author:Benjamin Rush

“A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.”

Brain Ignorance Stupidity Convince Simpletons

Author:Curt Goetz