"Beware of false knowledge; it is more..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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“I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.”
“We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.”
“What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.”
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“Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
“Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.”
More on Ignorance
“We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies”
“Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”
“When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.”