{"id":139,"date":"2010-03-27T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shortword\/2010\/03\/27\/seven-statements-about-ignorance\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T23:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:06:14","slug":"seven-statements-about-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/2010\/03\/27\/seven-statements-about-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Statements about Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.*<\/a> ~Saul Bellow (1915\u20132005)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929\u20131968)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Genuine ignorance is more profitable because likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; while ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with a varnish waterproof to new ideas.*<\/a> ~John Dewey (1859\u20131952)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.*<\/a> ~Sir William Osler (1849\u20131919)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ~Elbert Hubbard (1856\u20131915)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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To be ignorant of one\u2019s ignorance is the malady of ignorance. ~Amos Bronson Alcott (1799\u20131888)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749\u20131832)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.* ~Saul Bellow (1915\u20132005) Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929\u20131968) Genuine ignorance is more profitable because likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[134,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5k4cx-2f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}