Plautus Quotes

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

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

People never notice anything.

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

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.

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

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

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.