“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it”
Samuel Johnson
“The ignorant become stupid - when they no longer perceive or willfully ignore their own lack of knowledge - and then fail to strive and learn anything more.”
Mike E. Knezevich, Jr.
“If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance”
Contributed by: Frederic Aknin
Mark Twain
“We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
Albert Einstein
“I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.”
Charles M. Schulz
“Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.”
Benjamin Franklin