“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”— Isaac Asimov
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”— William A. Henry III
“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it.”— Mary Astell
“The case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable ignorance of all of us.”— Friedrich August von Hayek
“It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when one is surrounded by people who have never heard of weights and measures.”— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”— Joseph Kirkland