William Wordsworth Quotes

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

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

The best vision is insight.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

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

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

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.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.