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"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
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"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."

"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"

"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."

"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
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"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity " I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."

"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."

"The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs."
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