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


Aldous Huxley

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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW
Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
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We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
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A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ...
RICHARD PRATT
people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
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Its much more easier to know just one thing about everything in this universe than to know everythin...
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If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ...
MICHAEL STRONG
We are given to know only what we know from the infinite of ignorance. Thus what we do know isn’t ...
SORIN CERIN
Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR
Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
I dont know that happened.
DAVID BERNSTEIN
Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN
You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM
I dont know what happens to country.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG
By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least
JOHN GAY
People dont care what you know until they know what you care
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Dont fear the darkness, for we find ourselves the most within.
MAXWELL MORGAN INGRAM
I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa...
SARA QUIN
I dont know if anybody knows how to recover from this,
BOB ISRAEL
Dont know why am different from other people, but i surely know that i think of the long run, i dont...
OLASOT
I just dont know how...to think less. If you know how, then teach me...
AISHAH MADADIY
Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD
I dont know what was wrong with us. Either we were nervous or were just not that good.
ALEX HERNANDEZ
Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer tha...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ
O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN
no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ...
DALLY SALAD
If it doesnt help, I damned sure dont know what will.
JACK MOORE
Is it ignorance if you don’t care to know it?” “Yes. That is almost the definition of ignoranc...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
EOIN COLFER
The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD
You have more to fear from those who think they know you,Than from those who know they dont.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up
NADIRA AHMED
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
CONFUCIUS
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
CONFUCIUS
True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself.
NERISSA IRVING
Why dont we get drunk and screw?
JIMMY BUFFETT
He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well; he who knows understanding well sha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
do tou think i would speak for you? i dont even know your language
JUDD NELSON
Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
I love him more than clothes if that's not true love than I dont know what is
ELENA GABRIELLA MUNGUIA
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
CONFUCIUS
Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG)
If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.
SIMON HOLT
among all you know, there is one that you do not know. it is ignorance.
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF)
You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
MICHAEL PARENTI
I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS
We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I dont want to be broke down I want to be built up and vice versa I dont want to break down but buil...
HEATHER MONTANO
I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.
SARINA BOWEN
You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next.
ERIC GREEN
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
CONFUCIUS
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
SACHA GUITRY
Demand your respect. Know what you want out of a man so he can manifest and become it... But that wo...
NERISSA IRVING
we dont walk through our legs,we walk through our minds
RAHUL JAISWAL
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ERIN HUNTER
Ignorance is only bliss if you don't know you are ignorant.
JACK CAMPBELL
What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN It's so different and it's hard to readapt. Whole new classes and you dont' know where you're going.
JENNY SMITH
you know people seriously only deciding according to their needs and remember they dont a fuck to yo...
FAAMIN
Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to...
JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON
The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about ec...
LUTHER H. HODGES
was a conditional offer So we dont deal with that.
HARRY THOMAS
When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SOCRATES
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
DIOGENES
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance
DIOGENES
Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
GAYLE LYNDS
Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS
Its very beautiful over there. I dont know where there is, but I believe its somewhere, and I hope i...
THOMAS EDISON GUERRERO BARBOSA
Sometimes we have to let go someone we love, not because we dont care about them anymore, because we...
THE QUIET GIRL
When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
SARAH DESSEN
As We Say Life Is A Mystery,Then Dont Chase It,Just Live It.
KIM CHOWDHURY
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
JIMMY BUFFETT
If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get.
KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON
Why do we live like this? Is it because it's true that ignorance is bliss?
JEM
We are the future of our past and the past of our future,,, We dont know what will happen in the fut...
LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU
Everyone of them is staying, ... They dont want to go back. They have told me that.
AMY COLLINS
Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying...
SIMONE ELKELES
We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE
And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS
Weve talked in general about spin-offs and updating it - we dont have specific plans at this point. ...
BURT FEINTUCH
Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
JERI SMITH-READY
if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis...
ELVIS HODZIC
Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
ROBERT FULGHUM
I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
JULIANNA MARGULIES
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem ...
GERALD R. FORD
life is to short dont mess it up
VITA NEDERLOE

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Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
ALDOUS HUXLEY