Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.