Virginia Graham Quotes

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

…the ignorance, the credulity, and the stupid pride of the people, particularly the Boers. The most absurd ideas as to their strength and importance are prevalent among them, nor indeed is there any opinion on any subject too ridiculous…not to be adopted by them.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.