45 Quotes About Ignorance is Bliss

Ignorance can sometimes lead to wisdom. These quotes about ignorance is bliss captures how even the most absent minded of times can bring us unexpected gifts.

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“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.”

“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.”

“He could not bear to see pain, or sorrow, or misery of any kind; and, if it came under his notice, he was never easy till he had relieved it, for the time, at any rate. ”

“I know far too many people who prefer to shield their mind’s eye from the truth. They live in a perpetual state of denial, hoping their problems will cease to exist if they pretend they are not there.”

“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.”

“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’. ”

“Ignorance is bliss, or so we’re told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.”

“Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.”

“Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.”

“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?”

“Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round.”

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”

“It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.”

“It’s better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.”

“Knowledge is a rope, and you’re weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.”

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

“Racism springs from ignorance.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

“That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.”

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“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.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.”

“Where ignorance is bliss it’s foolish to borrow your neighbor’s newspaper.”

“Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

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

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”

“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.”

What happens when two different worlds collide. Ignorance of one another can lead to misinformation and misunderstanding.