“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.” IfsKindSaidImportantSelfSchoolEducationOpinionMillionsSelf EsteemStudentsIgnoranceIgnorantEsteemPromotingDepriving Author:Thomas Sowell
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWellsLittlesPersonsDoeSaidImportantKnowledgeToo MuchReadyIgnorantEducatedDisplayTalkersWell EducatedEducated ManIgnorant Person Book:Emile Source: Emile
“Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement.” WayPersonsHas BeensSaidHandsPainSufferingEnjoyJusticePleasureConsequenceRewardsScripturePunishmentIgnorantJudgementStrict Book:Guide for the perplexed Source: Guide for the perplexed
“They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.” WellsLongSaidStatesFeetIgnorantGovernors Author:Huey Long
“the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.” YearsSaidSeemsNumbersStruggleFourGrowingGenerationsRepublicanPassingIgnorantPassingsMiserableWelfareWarfareFour Generations Author:L. Neil Smith
“I'm guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a country where there's crumbling infrastructure and an ignorant population, but they said they're happy to come home anyway.” SaidCountryHomeFunLeavingSoldierIraqPopulationIgnorantComing HomeThey SaidInfrastructureGuessingCrumblingCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Bill Maher