P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

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.

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

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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

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

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

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

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.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I would like to enlighten people.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

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