Philip James Bailey Quotes

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

Philip James Bailey

Philip James Bailey

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Isaac Asimov
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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- Real
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

Garrison Keillor
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- Real
- Boy
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Virtues
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