Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.
Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
