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I am better off than he is,— for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
or as if he knew anything.
Epictetus • The Manual For Living
Charles Darwin once wrote: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Anthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)
When one of the Framers, James Wilson of Pennsylvania, suggested that they be elected by the people, not a single member of the Convention rose to support him. “The people should have as little to do as may be about the government,” Roger Sherman declared. “They lack information and are constantly liable to be misled.”
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Belonging neither to the class which regarded the social revolution as an innovation to be resisted, nor to that which considered political equality the universal panacea for the evils of humanity, he resolved by personal observation of the results of democracy in the New World to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations of
... See moreAlexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
This theory, which was nearly unknown to the republics of antiquity—which was introduced into the world almost by accident, like so many other great truths—and misunderstood by several modern nations, is at length become an axiom in the political science of the present age.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
He did not understand that many dragged down the Republic because it was not republican, but purely senatorial.
