QUOTES OF THE DAY 10-23-12

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

 

“He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
― Alexander Hamilton

 

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

 

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

 

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

 

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Stephen Hawking

 

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

 

“I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.”
― Jack Kerouac

 

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

(Proverbs in Prose, 1819)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

 

“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”
― Victor Cousin, Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L’Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L’Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen

 

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin