To know nothing is the happiest life.
Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes
To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan, The tender for another’s pain; Th’ unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be […]
I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross; restore […]
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
When we are not sure, we are alive.
Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know, that the people alone can protect us against these evils (of monarchy), and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose, is not more than a thousandth part of what will […]
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error.
