Anatole France Quotes About Ignorance
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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