“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Midnight Bayou
“Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.”
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 20
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“It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.”
Satius est supervacua scire quam nihil.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVIII: On liberal and vocational studies, Line 45.
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Seneca, Epistle 88, as seen in the following: "You may sweep all these theories in with the superfluous troops of 'liberal' studies; the one class of men give me a knowledge that will be of no use to me, the other class do away with any hope of attaining knowledge. It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. One set of philosophers offers no light by which I may direct my gaze toward the truth; the other digs out my very eyes and leaves me blind." Seneca: Epistle 88 http://www.stoics.com/seneca_epistles_book_2.html#%E2%80%98LXXXVIII1