Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to...

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.

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Jordan Peterson

Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

June 12th, 1962