All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.