Ignorance is bliss unless everyone is ignorant
David Alexander Rochestie
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IRENEE HOUNGBLAME I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
JULIANNA MARGULIES I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY Ignorance is only bliss if you don't know you are ignorant.
JACK CAMPBELL No stroller – because I don’t want to. Breastfeeding – because I want to. Travel – because I...
ALISHIA DUNCANSON Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
GAYLE LYNDS This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but ...
N.K. JEMISIN Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
ADAM PASCAL Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
KIN HUBBARD Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
ANONYMOUS Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Ignorance is bliss
AMERICAN PROVERB Ignorance is bliss
JOHN GREEN Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - p...
PAUL DAVIES Ignorance is kind of bliss.
JACKIE DESHANNON Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
PHILIP WYLIE Anonymity, not ignorance, is bliss. ~Anonymous
JOSEPH MCDONALD Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the a...
RICKY GERVAIS Ignorance is Bliss, but it's also Blind!
CHRIS W. MORRIS (CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM MORRIS) Ignorance is not bliss, but a blindfold.
MONK FROST It is the devil that will lie to you that ignorance is bliss.
The truth is ignorance is not bliss, b...
UNKNOWN If ignorance is bliss, then education is heaven sent.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing
RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A. B ALCOTT To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS ALCOTT To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT . . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
ANONYMOUS Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
JIM BUTCHER Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
GRAFFITI If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
ANONYMOUS Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
KAMAND KOJOURI If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
VICTOR COUSIN Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that...
INGRID HOLTBY If ignorance is bliss than how come I am so happy?
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper
KIN HUBBARD If ignorance is bliss, then I'd hope to, one day, be MultiOrgasmic.
AARON HOWARD when you squelch something, you give it power. Ignorance is not bliss.
DAN HARRIS It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
SAINT JEROME La paura si usa come mezzo per dominare, e i dominati fanno destrezza della ignoranza e creano patol...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ Why do we live like this? Is it because it's true that ignorance is bliss?
JEM If ignorance is bliss the world is comfortably surrounded by the inhabitants of an Eden!
DON WILLIAMS, JR Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.
EOIN COLFER If ignorance is bliss, than I do not want to be that happy
N. S. COLE But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?
CHRIS CLEAVE, EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ign...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE If ignorance is really bliss, then I don't understand where all this sadness is coming from.
WAKE UP! MESSAGE A raindrop coming in contact with fire looses it's existence while that falling on a shell becomes a...
SAM VEDA If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If ignorance is bliss, today's liberals must be in a state of continuous ecstasy.
WILLIAM J DAGER People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightenin...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.
JEANIENE FROST Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I hear the phrase "Ignorance is bliss" from time to time. If that's true, then "Stupidity is orgasmi...
RICHARD LYLES Ignorance is generally only a short term bliss. Typically followed by a double dose of reality.
SAM OLIVER MCKAY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON Everyone is ignorant – but on different issues.
WILL ROGERS Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.
TODD STOCKER If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
CARTER BURWELL Laws of Sex;To be ignorant of the erogenous zones of your partner is bad ignorance.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
JERI SMITH-READY Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his ...
LISA SHEARIN Ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time
ANTHONY GILBERT I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON Ignorance always makes people create an argument and it is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in i...
VIKRANT PARSAI I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackli...
STEPHEN RICHARDS The calculation of ignorance is too great for any calculator, only someone who has experienced bliss...
AARON OZEE Remember, you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run w...
TAY JARDINE Ignorance is a train - you can pretend to understand what the rest of the world is about, but you'll...
COLLIN LYSFORD I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignoran...
RICHARD DAWKINS The problem with society is that happiness and intelligence are rarely found in the same person. I ...
ANONYMOUS The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KHALIL GIBRAN The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don'...
WILLIE WELLS Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a d...
SUZY KASSEM An ignorant person can never attain knowledge unless the flame of knowledge is enkindled in his mind...
RIG VEDA Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.
ELIF SHAFAK Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a build...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a build...
AULIQ ICE The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
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CRISS JAMI My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not ...
JEFF FOXWORTHY You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
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