Top 86 Quotes About Ignorance Is Not Bliss
#1. Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.
Lisa Shearin
#2. Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
Gayle Lynds
#3. Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
Christine De Pizan
#4. Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.
Ted Nugent
#5. Ignorance is bliss, unless you're the on being ignored.
Barnabas Smith
#6. Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.
Stephen Colbert
#7. Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse
Ricky Gervais
#8. Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.
Mie Hansson
#9. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?
Melody Carlson
#11. Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
Jim Butcher
#12. Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.
Masha Du Toit
#13. Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.
David Horsey
#14. Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.
Lauren Kate
#15. Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round.
Nenia Campbell
#17. If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
Victor Cousin
#18. While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.
Todd Stocker
#20. wasn't that ignorance made you blissful. It was that bliss made you ignorant.
Joe Sharp
#21. Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard
#22. Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.
Jonathan Franzen
#23. Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#24. They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
Franz Kafka
#25. There are lies in life we accept. Whether it's for the sake of ignorance, bliss, or, in my case, survival, we all make our choices.
Katie McGarry
#26. Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen
#27. Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
Robert Aickman
#28. The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
Jared Diamond
#29. Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.
Rob Davis
#30. Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.
Jeaniene Frost
#31. I have a sixth sense for things I don't want to know and her manner pegged this as top of the scale ignorance-is-bliss material.
J.F. Lewis
#32. It's a world where what you don't know can hurt you, and ignorance is not bliss, where you must forgo all established logic to acclimate, and "Jabberwocky" makes sense.
Wendy E. Simmons
#33. Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
Robert Hugh Benson
#35. He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all.
William Shakespeare
#36. Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity - even if it had killed the cat - is king.
Kim Harrison
#37. Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will 'realize' true happiness.
Dada Bhagwan
#38. Isn't ignorance bliss?" "Ignorance is drunkenness,
Ella James
#39. The calculation of ignorance is too great for any calculator, only someone who has experienced bliss and genuine ignorance can determine valid or not, not those whom of which scrutinize it
Aaron Ozee
#40. Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts
Paul Knott
#42. Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
Patanjali
#44. Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is orgasmic.
Nityananda Das
#45. For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.
Donald Trump
#47. If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?
Mark Twain
#48. Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!
George Ade
#50. If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.
Tehyi Hsieh
#51. You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.
Glenn Beck
#52. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
Jaggi Vasudev
#53. Despite what you've heard, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance leads to poverty, illness, poor jobs and broken relationships.
Alan R. Zimmerman
#54. Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.
Larry Eisenberg
#55. If ignorance is bliss, then knowledge is a cage." "But knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.
Penny Reid
#56. I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.
Ani DiFranco
#57. Ignorance is not bliss; it is a sure path to annihilation.
T.F. Hodge
#59. Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal
#61. Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
Ramakrishna
#62. Ignorance is more than bliss, it is a recipe for potential disaster.
Steven Redhead
#64. It's not always best to know what's going on beneath the surface.
Fennel Hudson
#65. If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
Stephen Fry
#66. And somewhere
out there,
in the river of
addicts,
alcoholics,
wife beaters,
doormats,
overeducated legalized thieves,
fascist police,
and bitter rivalries
someone told me
it's a good city,
and I don't know
what's more frightening
Phil Volatile
#67. Ignorance didn't feel like bliss. It felt like stupidity, and she hated it. "That
Beth Cato
#68. The more you knew and understood about the world, the more aware you were that it's a cruel and shitty place. Ignorance really is bliss.
Stephen "Steve-O" Glover
#69. If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried
Josh Stern
#70. For the Christian, ignorance is not bliss; it is negligence and carelessness.
Pedro Okoro
#71. Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.
Robyn Carr
#72. All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
Henry Mitchell
#73. The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.
Deepak Chopra
#74. Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Paul Davies
#76. Looking mortality straight in the eyeis n easy feat. To avoid the exercise, we choose to stay blindfolded, in the dark as to the realities of death and dying. But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror.
Caitlin Doughty
#77. Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow.
Carlos Wallace
#78. My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
Jeff Foxworthy
#79. Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels better - not psychologically, but physically? That would explain a lot of human incongruities.
Chuck Klosterman
#80. This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years.
N.K. Jemisin
#81. Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.
Suzy Kassem
#82. Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
David Levithan
#83. When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.
Sandra S. Simmons
#85. I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
B.J. Novak
#86. When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Henry James
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