Jodi Picoult Quotes

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

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

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

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

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

I have not been briefed.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

You don't have to be either.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

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.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

Light means nothing to a blind man.

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

what you don't know, you don't miss

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.