Eric Metaxas Quotes

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

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

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

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

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

I'm not very wise to many things.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

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

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.