Harold MacMillan Quotes

It’s a lot easier to be critical of something if you don’t know much about it.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

... smart but not wise.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

I know all the critics.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

There is no darkness but ignorance.