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Ignorance Is Bliss Quotes

This collection holds 15 ignorance is bliss quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Jack Vance, Julianna Margulies and John Prine.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Jack Vance / Writer

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

Julianna Margulies / Actress

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

John Prine / Singer-Songwriter

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

Victor Lewis-Smith / Columnist

The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.

Adam Pascal / Actor

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

Franz Kafka / Writer

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

Henry James / Writer

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

Thomas Gray / Poet

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

David Eddings / Writer

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

Henry Mitchell / Oceanographer

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

Kin Hubbard / Cartoonist

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

Gayle Lynds

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

Terence Winter / Writer

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

Paul Davies / Physicist

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.

Scott Spencer / Author

I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.

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