#oran

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#ignorance #nearly #per

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#elder #english #history #man #must

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#apples #back #blockbuster #comparing #eating

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#ancient #brilliant #condemned #dictum #errors

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#ignorance #prejudice

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. ↗

— Heraclitus

#hide #ignorance #our #reveals #soon

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. ↗

— Herodotus

#good #ignorance #knowledge #only

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ↗

— Don Herold

#ignorant #lot #one thing #only #prove

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#beat #believe #could #death #elderly