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Sunday 20th of September 2026

Bad news A study once found that using the Fox News website as a news source made you less informed than watching no news at all. It's the Ozempic of knowing things. And still not as bad as the “news finds me” people.  That's the growing cohort of Americans who believe that if a story's important enough, it will find it's way to their social media feed. Yeah. These are the people who trust their  Facebook friends to watch Hannity for them. Bill Maher,  Real Time with Bill Maher, June 21, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Bad news What do I know about it? All I know is what's on the Internet. on the Internet. citation Donald Trump, responding to a reporter who pointed out that law enforcement officials had investigated his claim that a man who rushed the stage at one of his rallies had ties to ISIS and found his claim to be untrue and the video he linked to to support it was a hoax © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am smarter than anybody. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dreams HE WHOM a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting Padraic Collum, “He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Evolution  One of the problems of human evolution, as oppposed to, say, rocket science, is that everybody feels that their opinion has value irrespective of their prior knowledge. Henry Gee, The Accidental Species © 2017 Kwiple.com
Globalization Ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality, travel – these are the things which should of their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conviently possible, and, above all, let finance be primarily national. John Maynard Keynes, “National Self-Sufficiency” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Governance Policy may be based on knowledge, but its conduct is an art. Henry Kissinger © 2021 Kwiple.com
Ignorance There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism  has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”. Isaac Asimov © 2023 Kwiple.com
Knowledge The best way to know a thing is in the context of another discipline. Leonard Bernstein © 2021 Kwiple.com
Knowledge Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Knowledge He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were not the same. The first could be remedied with a little patience and a lot of hard work. And the latter? “Well, I guess you're up shit creek without a paddle.” J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, on his grandfather © 2016 Kwiple.com
Knowledge It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain © 2021 Kwiple.com
Knowledge The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand, and, from this, it results that the only sciences which it admits to be authentic are those which succeed in establishing relationships between phenomena. The rest is, as Malabranche put it, “mere polymathy.” Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Knowledge Nobody knows anything. William Goldman, on the impossibility of predicting whether a movie will be a commercial success © 2024 Kwiple.com
Knowledge We are able to ask perfectly natural geometric questions that we can't answer. Moreover, we can prove  that they are unanswerable. In other works, we can know that something is unknowable. Maybe this is not so depressing after all – it's a pretty amazing human accomplishment! Paul Lockhart, Measurement © 2017 Kwiple.com
Knowledge If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was & never will be. Thomas Jefferson  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Knowledge We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. Mary Catherine Bateson © 2021 Kwiple.com
Knowledge We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster. Carl Sagan © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require candidates for state and national electoral offices to take a test about issues relevant to the office they seek, with the test being created and administered by subject matter experts and the results being widely publicized one month before the election © 2017 Kwiple.com
Politics Busy with work, child rearing, and managing their households, Americans have little spare time or energy for following what government and politicians do. There are exceptions, especially those who are passionately concerned about global warming or Social Security or any other burning issue. The term for them is “issue publics.” But most people are quite under- standably politically inattentive most of the time. Richard M. Valelly, American Politics © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie Twenty years from now, if there is some obscure trivial pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. Ted Cruz © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Nobody saw it coming © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Some politicians don't answer the question. Mr. Trump can't answer the question. Henry Mance, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In Trump,  the age of unreason has at last found its hero. The “self-made man” is always the idol of those who aren’t quite making it.  He is the sacred embodiment of the American dream, the guy who answers to nobody, the poor man's idea of a rich man. It's the educated phonies this group can't stand. With his utter lack of policy knowledge and belligerent commitment to maintaining his ignorance, Trump is the perfect represen- tative for a population whose idea of good  governance is just to scramble the eggheads. When reason becomes the enemy of the common man, the common man becomes the enemy of reason. Donald Trump portrayed by Matthew Stewart © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He has an advantage over me because he can say everything he knows about any subject in 140 characters and I can't. Donald Trump portrayed by George F. Will © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The leader of the world's most powerful country is a dangerous ignoramus. Donald Trump portrayed by Martin Wolf © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
Surely you jest People don't know this about Iraq but they have among the largest oil reserves in the world. Donald Trump --> © 2018 Kwiple.com