Pasquier Quesnel Quotes

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

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

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

There is no darkness but ignorance.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

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

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

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

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

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

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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

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

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

There are many things that I don't understand.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

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