Philip Wylie Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

My ignorance is widespread.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

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

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

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant …

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

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

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

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