Alice Sebold Quotes

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

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

My ignorance is widespread.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.