
Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark.
– Welcome to Nightvale
Related Quotes:
- Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. – Shankara
- Death chose each of us – both Dark and Light – for a reason. There can’t be Light without Dark or Dark without Light. – Donna Grant
- This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. – Dorothy Parker
- IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE – Charleston Parker
- IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE – Charleston Parker
- In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light. – Kami Garcia
- Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck’s terrible.) – Groucho Marx
- there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss
- Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? – Wendy Doniger
- A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. – Mason Cooley
- …action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. – Idries Shah
- Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge. – Karen Azinger
- Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. – Kate DiCamillo
- What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
- You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. – Liane Moriarty
- Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us. – Isaac Asimov
- In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. – Harrison Scott Key
- A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight. – Sue Miller
- Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. – George RR Martin
- Ignorance,… wow sounds like you are now in it… so you came out here… so welcome to my club ignored! – Deyth Banger
- You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by. – Lemony Snicket
- Light in Greek is the same thing as knowledge which is the opposite of ignorance. – Sunday Adelaja
- What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light. – R N Prasher
- Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi
- Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge of what it is to be mute. – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom – Sunday Adelaja
- I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be. – Raphael Zernoff
- People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light. – Sunday Adelaja
- Democracy’s fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages! – Oliver Gaspirtz
- A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. – Leonard Ravenhill
- I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it. – Dominic Riccitello
- Know that we never have to walk in darkness. Even when we get into dark times or dark situations, God’s light is always there to be found! – Stormie Omartian
- I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me. – DR Silva
- Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? – Theodore Roethke
- Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons. – Nora Roberts
- He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma. – Dada Bhagwan
- Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being. – Andrew Murray
- An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing. – Catherine Lowell
- Write about a terrible experience until you find value in having gone through it. Then you will appreciate every dark hour. – Jan Marquart