Quote

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

Terry Pratchett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Terence David John Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
Really
Things
Stared
Ignorant
Feet
Least
Stills
Still
Important

More quotes by Terry Pratchett

Image
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.
Terry Pratchett
Image
You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm. At the time this was the last thing on my mind.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.
Terry Pratchett
Image
I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.
Terry Pratchett
Image
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett
Image
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett
Image
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
Terry Pratchett
Image
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.
Terry Pratchett
Image
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.
Terry Pratchett
Image
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called Living.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.
Terry Pratchett
Image
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.
Terry Pratchett
Image
In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?
Terry Pratchett
Image
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist.
Terry Pratchett