Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The specialist serves as a striking concrete example of the species, making clear to us the radical nature of the novelty. For, previously, men could be divided simply into the learned and the ignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the other. But your specialist cannot be brought in under either of these two categories. He is not learned , for he is formally ignorant of all that does not enter into his speciality; but neither is he ignorant, because he is "a scientist," and "knows" very well his own tiny portion of the universe. We shall have to say that he is a learned ignoramus, which is a very serious matter, as it implies that he is a person who is ignorant, not in the fashion of the ignorant man, but with an the petulance of one who is learned in his own special line.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.
Henry S. Haskins
A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
Ludwig von Mises
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.Tiruvalluvar
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.Thiruvalluvar
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