Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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