Marisha Pessl Quotes

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

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

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

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

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

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.