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"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."	Æschylus
"In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid."	Simone de Beauvoir
"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization."	Jon Bentley
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."	Bernard Berenson
"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."	Lord Billingsley
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."	Bokonon
"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means."	Lee C. Bollinger
"It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."	Napolean Bonaparte
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."	Charles Caleb Colton
"It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change."	Confucius
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."	Bill Cosby
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."	General Charles De Gaulle
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."	Nick Diamos
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Berenson
Bertrand Russell	Bill Cosby	Bokonon
Charles Caleb Colton	Charles De Gaulle	Charles J. C. Lyall
Clarence Seward Darrow	Confucius	Dave Barry
Dennis Miller	Doris Fleeson	Dorothy Parker
Douglas Adams	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edwin H. Land
Elbert Hubbard	Epictetus	Erma Louise Bombeck
Fran Lebowitz	Frank Leahy	Gamal Abdel Nasser
General Charles De Gaulle	George Bernard Shaw	George Carlin
Groucho Marx	Gustave Flaubert	Harlan Ellison
Henny Youngman	Henry Ford	Henry Graham Greene
Homer Simpson	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jean de LaBruyere
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John F. Kennedy	John Knowles
John Stuart Mill	Jon Bentley	J(ames) William Fulbright
Kahlil Gibran	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	Lee C. Bollinger
Lord Billingsley	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maxim Gorky	Mike Tyson	Napolean Bonaparte
Nick Diamos	Oscar Wilde	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rick Moranis	Rodney Dangerfield	Simone de Beauvoir
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Stephen King	Tom Clancy
Vartan Gregorian	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	W. Somerset Maugham
Will Rogers	William Wister Haines	Woody Allen
Yogi Berra	Æschylus