Quotes of: Ignorance-is-bliss Keyword

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

The Beauty Myth

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

The Books of Magic

...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....

The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at w...

Srikumar Rao

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant t...

Ezra Taft Benson

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

Kenneth H. Cooper

I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!

Marc Warren

The are no perfect people; only people perfectly willing to point out your imperfections while ignoring their own.

30 Quotes 30 Days, Volume 1

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.

50 Simple Questions for Every Christian

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

What freedom to be tied up, and still have the capability of ignoring ridiculous, silly conversations.

Aventuras in Spain: A memoir of Spain in the 70's and 80's

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

The ABC of Anarchism

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

People often ignore injustices for the sake of Not Getting Involved; too afraid of Making Matters Worse. Not realising matters are made far worse because of it.

Alana Oakley: Mystery and Mayhem

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

Apology

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

The Heart of the Matter

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! - Nevel Walker

I Am Currency

Even when it wasn’t visible, Dominic could smell the newly broken skin. It sent a wave of hunger through him, but he ignored it. Not tonight; tonight was for other pleasures.

Ink

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds?

On the Ideal Orator