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title: "4 Ignorance False Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-scientist-who-yields-anything-to-theology-however-slight-is/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/if-you-did-not-in-your-own-mind-distinguish-between-useful-and/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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> [It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft/it-is-an-unfortunate-fact-that-every-man-who-seeks-to-disseminate/)

[H. P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft/)

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> [The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/the-criminal-misuse-of-time-was-pointing-out-the-mistakes-catching/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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