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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm read more
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
