Ignorance Bliss Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Gareth once told me that ignorance was bliss and I'd responded that ignorance was dangerous. We were both right. But which is better? — Demitria Lunetta

Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round. — Nenia Campbell

The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss. — Lionel Suggs

Ignorance is a bliss — John Green

Ignorance is bliss, right? Well, knowledge is misery. And the truth hurts. — Mia Asher

Ignorance may be bliss, but at the end of the day it's still ignorance. — Katie Alender

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

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

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts — Paul Knott

If ignorance is bliss, then knowledge is a cage." "But knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation. — Penny Reid

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. — Victoria Schwab

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

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

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

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. — Eoin Colfer

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

Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but why lie to the people? Why assure the people they are right in their ignorance and that their crude prejudices are sacred truth? Can any splendid future possibly justify this basr lie? Were I a politician, I could never make up my mind to shame my present for the sake of the future, even though I might be promised tons of bliss for a pinch of foul lying. — Anton Chekhov

Now, as I look around at a room filled not only with boxes but plenty of its own marks, I want to know the stories behind them. Or rather, a part of me wants to know those stories. The other part of me thinks that's the worst idea in the world, but I don't listen to that part. Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy, Da's warning echoes in my head, and I know; but there are no Histories here to feel sympathy for. Which is exactly why the Archive wouldn't approve. They don't approve of any form of recreational reading. — Victoria Schwab

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss. — Jack Vance

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection. — Masha Du Toit

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. — Robyn Carr

Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted. — Jeaniene Frost

There is nothing better than not knowing. — Markus W. Lunner

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. 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 relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith. — Robert G. Ingersoll

If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried — Josh Stern

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters. — Brian Spellman

Isn't it better to live in ignorance of everything
asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisions
to live in bliss without knowing it? — Greg Mortenson

- That may be better left unsaid. No, ignorance is bliss, perhaps, - Utsurigi said without any shyness, - Still, you are quite gloomy. Despite those dead-fish eyes of yours.
- Saying they are like dead fish is a bit much. The Professor said "good eyes".
- Good eyes they are. Truly impressive levels of rotting. — NisiOisiN

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self. — Ramana Maharshi

Ignorance is a bliss. One does not simply believe everything they see on the Internet. If an individual has full swag control and mastery of the deception of swag, one could have easily seen through this 'troll'. This is why learning the basic 4 swag principles and mastering them is extremely necessary. Basically, one must AT least master the 4 elements of swag in order to see through deception and perceive where the swag count energy is being emitted from. this state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking , where it is absent, discussion is adapted to become worse than useless.
My title as 'Man of Swag' can never be replaced. I am Swag — Batuhan Ibal

Ignorance is more than bliss, it is a recipe for potential disaster. — Steven Redhead

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

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

Isn't ignorance bliss?" "Ignorance is drunkenness, — Ella James

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. — Jonathan Franzen

Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

But I had learned long ago that you actually probably don't want to know what kind of guy your besties think you ought to be with. It always says more as much about what they thing of you as what they think of him, and I find a certain comfort in being ignorant of what my pals might envision for me. — Stacey Ballis

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

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss. — Cesar Nascimento

Ignorance is not bliss; it is a sure path to annihilation. — T.F. Hodge

Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse — Ricky Gervais

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

Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy. — Nenia Campbell

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. — Robert Aickman

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

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

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

Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin tenuous little identity which I love and cherish so dearly - and being confident that, once on the other side, I shall never miss my own little ambitions for my conceited self, but shall be content in serving the ambitions of my mate, or of a society, or cause. (Yet I will not, I cannot accept any of those solutions. Why? Stubborn selfish pride. I will not make what is inevitable easier for my-self by the blinding ignorance-is-bliss "losing-and-finding" theory. Oh, no! I will go, eyes open, into my torture, and remain fully cognizant, unwinking, while they cut and stitch and lop off my cherished malignant organs.) So much for selflove: I carry it with me like a dear cancerous relative - to be disposed of only when desperation sets in. — Sylvia Plath

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

Happiness is bliss - but ignorance is anesthetic, and in the face of what's to come, that may be all we can hope for our ill-fated acquaintances. — William Ritter

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.' — Julianna Margulies

In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's too late. — Abby Fabiaschi

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

I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it. — Pamela Anderson

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance ... a heavy bliss. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing. — Ted Nugent

Some say ignorance is bliss, I say love is. — Julieanne O'Connor

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

Despite what you've heard, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance leads to poverty, illness, poor jobs and broken relationships. — Alan R. Zimmerman

Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance? — James Jean-Pierre

Ignorance was bliss. Or at least less painfull — Kiersten White

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

wasn't that ignorance made you blissful. It was that bliss made you ignorant. — Joe Sharp

If ignorance is bliss, believing lies is orgasmic. — Cassia Leo

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny. — Gayle Lynds

But I wouldn't tell them a thing. The less they knew, the better. I was positive of that. Ignorance is bliss, and the opposite of ignorance is the opposite of bliss. — Katie Alender

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy! — Jim Butcher

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. — Kin Hubbard

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

The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my ignorance with the knowledge that I was much happier then than now. Consider this: children know precious little, but the profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived. — Nick Sagan

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

Ignorance is kind of bliss. — Jackie DeShannon

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

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

Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can bring up painful emotions: sorrow and grief for the animals; anger at the injustice and deception of the system; despair at the enormity of the problem; fear that trusted authorities and institutions are, in fact, untrustworthy; and guilt for having contributed to the problem. Bearing witness means choosing to suffer. Indeed, empathy is literally 'feeling with.' Choosing to suffer is particularly difficult in a culture that is addicted to comfort
a culture that teaches that pain should be avoided whenever possible and that ignorance is bliss. We can reduce our resistance to witnessing by valuing authenticity over personal pleasure, and integration over ignorance. — Melanie Joy

Ignorance is bliss until one confronts it. — C.B. Smith

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night. — Dean Koontz

There are certain delicate illusions that make life bearable. Love, in its most pure and pathetic form, the one before we get to genuinely know the person we love, is one of them. Ignorance is bliss, and the less you know, the more you love, the less you have, the more you want.
We all miss the most the things we never had. — Cristian Mihai

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

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

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

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

Ignorance is bliss — John Green

Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you. — Jeffrey Fry

Ignorance was bliss. — Chuck Palahniuk

Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where we roll in the bliss of ignorance. — Mark Lawrence

I never thought of myself as quiet or much less silent ... is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one millions times but never once into it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond

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

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

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

I swallow. Will I like this different me? Will my friends and family? "I know there is a popular saying 'ignorance is bliss.'" She eyes me sympathetically, as if she knows my thoughts. "But I also know there is a better one that says 'knowledge is power.'" I'm currently unsure which one I agree with. — E.J. Mellow

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. — Victor Cousin

They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss. — Ryan Miller

Then it's topped with cheese, which is made from cow's milk. But the best part is pepperoni sausage."

"And how is sausage made?" Aelyx asked.

Dad laughed dryly from across the table. "Ignorance is bliss in this case. — Melissa Landers

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