Ignorance Is Preferable To Error, And He Is Less Remote From The Truth Who Believes Nothing, Than He Who Believes What Is Wrong.

Ignorance Is Preferable To Error, And He Is Less Remote From The Truth Who Believes Nothing, Than He Who Believes What Is Wrong.

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who
believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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