R. Scott Bakker Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Wise, Ignorance, Dark

• Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Ignorance, Men, Knowing

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.294, The Overlook Press

• The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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