Quotes About Blissful Ignorance

#1. Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

Sylvia Plath

#2. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. Children should have some warning, some way of knowing it was dangerous to look out at the world with unguarded pleasure. But who would want to tell them, to deprive them of those few moments of blissful ignorance that would have to last a lifetime?

Kate Alcott

#4. Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

Gayle Lynds

#5. Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.

Kristina McMorris

#6. Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering

Guy Kawasaki

#7. The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

Ellar Coltrane

#8. Painful knowledge is better than blissful ignorance

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

Gad Saad

#10. Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Clive Sinclair

#11. There was something to be said for blissful ignorance. But would I have been happier with no idea about what threatened my world? At least this way I stood a chance of doing something about it.

Shanna Swendson

#12. Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance.

Lionel Suggs

#13. Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance; discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you.

Forrest Curran

#14. The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by their blissful ignorance to ask the right questions. When you have all of the answers, but are unable to ask any questions to them, then all you have are secrets.

Lionel Suggs

#15. I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

John Steinbeck

#16. If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel on any particular day!

M.P. Sharma

#17. Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#18. Ignorance is bliss was bull. Melody had been ignorant her whole life, and things were far from blissful. It was time to give knowledge is power a try.

Lisi Harrison

#19. I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from it since she was nine.

Tana French

#20. She had told herself she should be reassured by his squeamishness; a man who balked at scars would not give her new ones. Now she suddenly wondered if she'd had it wrong. A man without scars would always underestimate their value. He would not see them as marks of courage.

Meredith Duran

#21. My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

Anne Waldman

#22. He shrugged. Confusion was like struggling to find the proper way to sit inside his skin.

Samuel R. Delany

#23. It enraged me. It was their confidence, maybe - their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope.

John Gardner

#24. I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

Bill Bennett

#25. I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.

Florence Welch

#26. As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Hippocrates

#27. It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

Nancy Reagan

#28. wasn't that ignorance made you blissful. It was that bliss made you ignorant.

Joe Sharp

#29. blissful as ignorance,

Brian Greene