1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson), p. 159
“Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”
Crazier (2008) (promotional single for Hannah Montana: The Movie).
Song lyrics
“Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.”
2000s, The End of Faith (2004)
“Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical”
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Les Caractères (1688), De la société et de la conversation
Context: Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical; he who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he just now has learned himself; whilst he who knows a great deal can scarcely imagine any one should be unacquainted with what he says, and, therefore, speaks with more indifference.
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 19, "The illusion of understanding", page 201 (ISBN 9780141033570).
