Childhood Quote by Thomas Gray Download Open image ““Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ”” — Thomas Gray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Ignorance Ignorance is bliss Knowledge Nostalgia Wisdom Youth
“Willful ignorance is blissful only in the mind of a remarkable fool.” — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my ignorance with… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
“No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“A good tutor can make one’s college experience a revolutionary passage, to life as well as to literature; a bad one can make it… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mundane education is regrettably prosaic," - Jace Lightwood-Herondale” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image