148 Blissful Ignorance Quotes

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Famous Blissful Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some. — Adam Pascal

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness. — Giacomo Leopardi

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance — Honore de Balzac

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. — Euripides

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life. — Sophocles

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face... — Zack de la Rocha

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly — Desiderius Erasmus

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing - The Weeknd

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing — The Weeknd

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. — Jim Rohn

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light — Ibn Arabi

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. — Hugo Grotius

Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know. — Aldous Huxley

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story. — François Lelord

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. — Daniel Kahneman

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. — Publilius Syrus

Short Blissful Ignorance Quotes

  • Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. — James Clerk Maxwell
  • Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. — Maya Angelou
  • It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. — Deepak Chopra
  • Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul — Plato
  • Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge. — Elif Safak
  • I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. — Mark Twain
  • With no thoughts, we return to our default, childlike state: happiness! — Mo Gawdat
  • Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead
  • There is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe
  • It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. — Mignon McLaughlin

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Blissful ignorance quote Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Ignorant Bliss Quotes

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. — Joan Baez

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself. — Hyman Rickover

Ignorance is bliss. — English Proverbs

Blissful ignorance quote Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. — Donald James

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. — Henry Mitchell

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. — Nancy Reagan

Blissful ignorance quote The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy. — Wayne Dyer

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance. — Sheryl Sandberg

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? — Thomas Jefferson

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister — Blaise Pascal

Ignorance Is Bliss Quotes

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier? — Mark Twain

Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY. — Shiv Khera

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance. — Unknown

Blissful ignorance quote People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own. — Thomas Gray

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? — Stephen Fry

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray

Blissful ignorance quote Weak people revenge, strong people forgive, intelligent people ignore.
Weak people revenge, strong people forgive, intelligent people ignore.

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

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

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom. — David Eddings

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong — Franz Kafka

Ignorance Is Not Bliss Quotes

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive. — Jaggi Vasudev

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie

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

Blissful ignorance quote The most violent element in society is ignorance.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise! — George Ade

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

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was. — Victoria Principal

Blissful ignorance quote If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman. — John Milton

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death. — Suzy Kassem

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

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given. — David Levithan

If Ignorance Is Bliss Quotes

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive. — Henry James

The Beatles are dying in the wrong order. — Victor Lewis-Smith

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

Blissful ignorance quote Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy. — Unknown

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king. — Kim Harrison

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this... — LeCrae

Blissful ignorance quote There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article. — Tehyi Hsieh

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

Love Ignorance Quotes

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. — William Arthur Ward

Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth. — Malcolm Muggeridge

In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Blissful ignorance quote Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove y
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen

You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me - Shahrukh Khan

You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me — Shahrukh Khan

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand. — Talib Kweli

Blissful ignorance quote Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it. — Natalie Imbruglia

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. — Gilda Radner

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. — Andre Breton

Being Ignorant Quotes

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter. — Jose Rizal

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright

To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate — William Wilberforce

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass

White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant. — Jane Elliott

To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. — Ramakrishna

Willful Ignorance Quotes

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. — Mark Twain

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? - Ibn Taymiyyah

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? — Ibn Taymiyyah

God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach. — Smith Wigglesworth

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders. — Samuel Adams

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. — Ulysses S. Grant

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. — Kofi Annan

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. — Bayazid Bastami

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. — Bayazid AlBistami

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. — James Madison

Knowledge And Ignorance Quotes

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. - Ibn Khaldun

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. — Ibn Khaldun

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. - Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. — Elijah Muhammad

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. — Samuel Adams

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. — Leo Tolstoy

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art. — Toni Morrison

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved. — Bartolome de las Casas

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. — W. E. B. Du Bois

Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put truth above social approval. — Naval Ravikant

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More Blissful Ignorance Quotes

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray

I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen. — Reese Witherspoon

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration. — Louise Erickson

Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. — Stephen Colbert

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die. — Sivananda

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss. — Ruth Stout

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. — Kahlil Gibran

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery. — Hartley Coleridge

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. — John Simon

Ignorance is kind of bliss. — Jackie DeShannon

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center. — Marianne Williamson

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss. — Jack Vance

Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever. — Sathya Sai Baba

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