Quotes of: Ignorance-is-bliss Keyword

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

Leviathan

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less... Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

Leaders' Watchwords

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

My Family and Other Animals

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

The Mists of Avalon

Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.

Sydney West

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

Thérèse Desqueyroux

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

The River of Winged Dreams

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

The Trial

When people say they don’t read, I always wonder if they don’t because they can’t or because they won’t. Then I think, what’s the difference? Either way they are ignorant.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.

The Unholy Cause

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

When True Night Falls

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

You

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Zen in the Art of Writing

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous ‘blind-spots’ in the path to your success.

Making Success Deliberate