David Levithan Quotes

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

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.

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

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

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.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

I like to open people's eyes.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

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

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.