Charles Bukowski Quotes

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

What you don't know will hurt you.

at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were free instead of chewed at by bleeding impotence, dissolved away like a pearl in acid

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.