Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Quote by William Gaddis

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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an...

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an...

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the...

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the...

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it...

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it...

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work?...

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work?...

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work...

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

People used to say, Ignorance is no excuse. Today, ignorance is no problem. After all,...

People used to say, Ignorance is no excuse. Today, ignorance is no problem. After all,...

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond...

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond...

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of...

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of...

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of...

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of...

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from...

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from...

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call...

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call...

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it...

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it...