Eugene Ionesco Quotes

I like to open people's eyes.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

You always admire what you really don't understand.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.