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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Henry Louis Mencken

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Thomas Carlyle

A crowd has the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Thomas Carlyle

The great creative individual. . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

John Stuart Mill

It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual

George Washington (1732-1799)

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George Washington

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin (1909-)

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Michel de Montaigne

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.)

Buddha

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.)

Buddha

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere --as well say that a range of mountains is higher than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

Colin Powell (1937-)

Colin Powell

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

We're looking for collective wisdom on what we can do to help.

Governments should have no role in determining what is an appropriate religion or belief for an individual to hold. This is a matter of individual conscience.

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress.

Frank Zappa (1940-1993)

Frank Zappa

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