Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Ignorance
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
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Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.
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