My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
“[…] where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.”
“The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance.”
#434
The Furrow (1986)
“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”
Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.
Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 10.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
“I will not be ignored. I am here to stay.”
Quoted in Queer Quotes: On Coming Out and Culture, Love and Lust, Politics and Pride, and Much More, Teresa Theophano, ed. (2004)
“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”
Demonology
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)
“From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.”
To the Honorable Charles Montague (1692).
“The role of reason is not to make us wise but to reveal our ignorance”
Commonly attributed to Hume, but without any apparent basis.
Misattributed
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
