History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. - Voltaire

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Never underestimate your own ignorance.

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

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A man's character is his fate. - Heraclitus

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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. - Heraclitus

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There is no darkness but ignorance. - William Shakespeare

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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. - Heraclitus

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