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Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer.
Knowing wrong is worse than ignorance.
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, dit Jean-Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Venise 1725-Dux, Bohême, 1798 Mémoires
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Les faits ne cessent pas d'exister parce qu'on les ignore.
Facts do not cease to exist because we ignore them.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley Godalming, Surrey, 1894-Los Angeles 1963 A Note on Dogma
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Je consens qu'une femme ait des clartés de tout, Mais je ne lui veux point la passion choquante De se rendre savante afin d'être savante ; Et j'aime que souvent, aux questions qu'on fait, Elle sache ignorer les choses qu'elle sait.
I accept that a woman has insight into everything, But I do not want her to have the shocking passion of making herself learned in order to be learned; And I like that often, to the questions we ask, She knows how to ignore the things she knows.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière Paris 1622-Paris 1673 Les Femmes savantes, I, 3, Clitandre