If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
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Quoted by Diogenes Laėrtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853) p. 196.
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Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".Theophrastus
Mr. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. It is true. I am an ignorant man. I have had no college education. I have not even had a high school education. But the things that takes me far in politics is that I do not have to color what comes into my mind and into my heart. I say it unvarnished. I say it without veneer. I have not the learning to do otherwise, and therefore my ignorance is often not detected.
Huey Long
All the big sportswriters seemed to enjoy writing about me as an ignorant cotton-mill boy with nothing but lint where my brains ought to be. That was all right with me. I was able to fool a lot of pitchers and managers and club owners I wouldn't have been able to fool if they'd thought I was smarter.
Shoeless Joe Jackson
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
Evelyn Waugh
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations--acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, and plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature, and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea, and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation. Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world--or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
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