by Profit Prophet | Nov 27, 2021 | Acquiring, Govern, Government, Ignorance, Information, Knowledge, Popular, Power, Prologue, Tragedy
“A popular government, without popular information, or the mean of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power...
by Profit Prophet | Oct 26, 2021 | Cannot, Country, Ignorance, Interests, Knowledge, Live, People, Prevail, Reduce, Tyrants, Vice, Virtue
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” –Samuel Adams
by Profit Prophet | Oct 25, 2021 | Ignorance, Intelligence, Moves, On, Screams
“When ignorance screams, intelligence moves on.” –Donald Jackson
by Profit Prophet | Aug 19, 2021 | Able, Change, Happily, Harmed, Ignorance, Is Not, No One, Right, Seek, Self-deception, Show, Think, Truth
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” –Marcus...
by Profit Prophet | Jan 8, 2021 | Beach, Been But, Before Me, Boy, Great, Ignorance, Lay, Ocean, Ordinary, Rock, Seem, Shell, Standing, Truth, Undiscovered
“I seem to have been but a boy, standing on the beach, now and then finding a smoother rock or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”–Isaac Newton(click picture to enlarge)
by Profit Prophet | Dec 14, 2020 | Ambition, Another, Between, Contest, Dividing Line, Existence, Future, Ignorance, Intelligence, National, Near, Patriotism, Predict, Supersition
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”...
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