Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Thomas A. Edison

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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Ayn Rand

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People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Terry Goodkind

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Søren Kierkegaard

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

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