How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next — if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions — you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

If a writer knows everything that is going to happen, then his book is dead before he begins it.

Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

“What happened?”
“Nothing serious, as long as I’m careful.”
“You’re doomed,” she said.

Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup.

I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day. (Part One, 7th section)

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don’t try.

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

How merciful a thing is man’s ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds!

You don’t know what your life is going to bring. You don’t know what’s going to happen.

A man may not know what will happen as a result of other people’s actions or as the result of unknown causes, but he always knows all possible results of his own actions.