Elizabeth Moon Quotes

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

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

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

It takes zero politically correct people to screw in a lightbulb because they are perpetually in the dark.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.