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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.
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Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Audre Lorde
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
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Marilyn Ferguson
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
Knowledge is power.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
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Oriental Proverb
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