English Quote by John Patrick Lowrie

“It is better to conceal ignorance.”

— Heraclitus

“The forces of ignorance are viciously powerful.”

— Julian North

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command…

— Barbara Walters

“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”

— Melissa Wiley

“obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangers than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Concealing, therefore, their pestilent doctrine by their specious and flattering discourse, they circumvent the more simple-minded and such as are open to fraud, nor…

— Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

“Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.”

— Brent Weeks

“Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Liars prove their ignorance with every word they speak.”

— Aaron L. Carter

“our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“...radiating honest ignorance”

— Terry Pratchett