Sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
—Audrey Niffenegger in Her Fearful Symmetry
I can't forget things, or ignore them—bad things that happen. I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
—William Safire
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
—Sophocles
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
—André Maurois
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
—Herbert Spencer
People often feel threatened by things that are different. It reflects their ignorance, not your reality.
—Lori Wilde in Love of the Game
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
—W. E. B. Du Bois
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
—John Green