Apr 17, 2008
Oh, that my being stupid could eventually work for my benefit! But, alas.
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One’s intelligence can be so low that one is stupid, but one’s stupidity can never get high enough to make one intelligent.
-Edward Sapir, Quoted in Far from the Madding Gerund, 98
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Sometimes ignorance has a dignity to it. Knowledge increases blame.
John 9:41
Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
On a related note: “The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.”
Strangely, I just now noticed this quote is 22 words.
though we don’t look kindly on the sapir-whorf hypothesis, i enjoyed this quotation. yes, i still insist on saying quotation rather than quote as a noun.