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

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

H. L. Mencken
Freedom, Ignorance, Majority Rule
"Notes On Journalism". Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1926.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

H. L. Mencken
Freedom, Crazy, Ignorance
"A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

H. L. Mencken
Religious, Horse, Ignorance

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

H. L. Mencken
Christian, Religious, Ignorance

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

H. L. Mencken
Believe, Ignorance, Origin Of Life

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

H. L. Mencken
Ignorance, Giving, Intuition

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