Stupid and Ignorant

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

~Gustave Flaubert


"Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride or laziness of mind."

~Karl Popper
(from an article by Ryszard Kapuscinski)