“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
“Ignorance is a chink in the armor a knowledgeable enemy can exploit at will.”
— Glen Cook, book She Is the Darkness
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 54 (p. 462)
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