Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. - Karl Popper
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
- Karl Popper
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it w… - Karl Popper
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it w…
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. - Karl Popper
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can. - Karl Popper
If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us. - Karl Popper
The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about rea… - Karl Popper
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about rea…
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you. - Karl Popper
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with … - Karl Popper
If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with …
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Karl Popper
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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