David Crosby Quotes

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

No one who lives in error is free.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Contemporary Americans were so prosperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.