Quotes of: Ignorance-is-bliss Keyword

Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don’t view peace of mind as a threat to their creative power often believe tha...

Rob Brezsny

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memori...

Thomas Ligotti

Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but fro...

The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon/The Libation-Bearers/The Furies

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, --as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! Ho...

Edgar Allan Poe

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us ...

bell hooks

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the nor...

Vladimir Nabokov

Place a weapon in the hands of Greed, hatred, especially of ignorance You've created innocent deaths That wasn't neccasary

Death On a Bicycle

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

The Dermis Probe

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Darwinia

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

The Education of Henry Adams

I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Education of a Wandering Man

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?

The Elements of Style

I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.

Final Approach

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Four Ways to Forgiveness

I couldn't ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.

The Gamble

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

The Green Mile

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

The Blind Assassin