Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.

Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.

...Sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.

That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

And somewhereout there,in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics,wife beaters,doormats,overeducated legalized thieves,fascist police,and bitter rivalries—someone told meit’s a good city,and I don’t knowwhat’s more frightening.

In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's too late.

It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.

It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.