Sometimes Ignorance Is 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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters. — Brian Spellman

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. Rather, ignorance is blistering. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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