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Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

The more I know, the less I understand

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

I used to think I knew everything, but older you get the more you see other areas. If you could read everything about both sides, you'll pretty much be in the middle again, which is the state you had when you were totally ignorant. So my theory is if you maintain total ignorance - which isn't easy, but I try - you'll be just as far ahead as if you'd spent days and days reading about the whole issue. And you have that much extra time to play Pac-man.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

The more I see, the less I know.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

I know too much and not enough

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

Enough to know no knowing.