Anthony de Mello 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.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

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

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.