Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
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The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
quote by Neal Stephenson
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
quote by Will Rogers
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Singing Songs, My Way
I will sing my tunes
Everyday, everynight
My way
No, no, I am not
Knowledgeable, educated
With this plight
Go ahead, call me ignorant
Call me an idiot
I will forge forward
Fleeting least
Into this night
I may sing an unlikely tune
Unrealistic, untrue
Only for you
My pointdexter minded friends
So come sit beside me
Giude me
Do not despise me
For I'm in you
You in me
Graciously
A classic
Without
Tyrrany
poem by Matt Mondschein
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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
quote by John Keegan
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Ignorance sooths
The new born is ignorant
That it has been born.
The dead one is ignorant
That it has been dead.
The lovelorn are ignorant
That they have been thrown out.
0405.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
quote by Pearl S. Buck
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
quote by Franz Grillparzer
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Charmless Man
I met him in a crowded room
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me down and so began
The story of a charmless man
Educated the expensive way
He knows his claret from a beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way
He thinks his educated airs those family shares
Will protect him
song performed by by Blur from The Great Escape
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We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
The Dawn
I WOULD be ignorant as the dawn
That has looked down
On that old queen measuring a town
With the pin of a brooch,
Or on the withered men that saw
From their pedantic Babylon
The careless planets in their courses,
The stars fade out where the moon comes.
And took their tablets and did sums;
I would be ignorant as the dawn
That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach
Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
poem by William Butler Yeats
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
quote by Sydney Smith
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
quote by Amos Bronson Alcott
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
He who is ignorant at home is ignorant abroad.
This They Wish to Insist
Please tell me this isn't true?
No one takes pride in being ignorant!
Submersed in those ignorant things they say and do.
Do they knowingly accept,
An incorrectness they perfect?
And if they do,
How far will they get?
When already they display,
Such a stupidness in disarray.
Please tell me this isn't true?
No one takes pride in being ignorant,
Submersed in those ignorant things they say and do.
And if this is true...
That deadend ahead is no accident?
It was an intention meant?
To experience what?
And to enlighten who?
If fools can be this wise...
Wouldn't it have been more feasible,
To spend less on clown makeup...
And have done the same thing,
To produce efforts...
More collectively economized?
Or...
Do they feel,
Those who 'are' wise should be taught lessons?
And this they wish to insist,
They are the ones better qualified...
With no one to argue how they go about it.
And being in disguise,
Allows them to go effectively undetected!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Affirmation Of Essential Self
Morning Lucy
your not dumped
your moving on
to a new pose stage
of affirmation of
your essential self
you are intelligent
sincere honest
modest kind
hard working and
beautiful body and soul
an exceptional woman
doing an important
job extremely well
you need the right man who
appreciates you for yourself
probably intelligent
many less mature or less
educated men may be insecure
threatened by all you are
do not change be less to
try to please ignorant others
do not be hurt by cruel
words or actions for too long
so many love believe
absolutely in you
including most important
of all your god Allah
poem by Terence George Craddock
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People Who are Ignorant
People who are ignorant,
Have invested valuable time...
And money spent.
To prove their foolishness and ways,
Makes a difference.
Although these folks within their minds,
Have an absence of common sense.
And, are noticeably self destructive and crazed.
People who are ignorant,
Spend every dime spent...
Revealing their incompetence.
And taking direction from those who are right,
Is something they've never done.
Since deceit and decadence has been their main appetite.
People who are ignorant,
Believe an ability to thieve makes them great.
They believe their disasters started,
Shows their expertise and them being able to create.
But people who are ignorant,
Like these folks show they are and can be?
May seek an empathy from others for their stupidity.
But sincerity shown these empty headed 'entities'...
Is a waste of time.
Unless one wishes a suffering done endlessly.
However...
People who are ignorant,
Have been convinced their way of life...
Is one pursued by those who are jealous.
And are threaten because they are envied!
And standards they value,
Reflects upon them in a 'special' light.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.