James Beattie Quotes

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

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.