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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence. Beware of a silent dog and of still water. Whom a serpent has bitten, a lizard alarms. Put a snake in your bosom, and when it is warm it will sting you. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.