Ignorance- christiansquoting.org.uk

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. Greek Proverb

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.--Aeschylus (525-456 BC),_The Suppliants_

Isn't it curious that narrowminded people are often the most thick-headed? Frank Baer

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok, president of Harvard

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.- Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today, and it will set the pace tomorrow.-- Franklin K. Dane

His ignorance is encyclopaedic -- Abba Eban (1915-)

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin

He that knows nothing will believe anything.--THOMAS FULLER

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Goethe (1749-1832)

Men deride what they do not understand and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. ~ J.W. Goethe 1749-1832

To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (London: R. Dodsley, 1747)

'Well,' said the other, 'thank God, I know but little of these things.'
'What,' exclaimed Orator Henley, 'thank God! for your ignorance?'
'Yes I do Sir,' was the fierce retort, 'what then?'
'Then,' says Henley, 'you have a great deal to be thankful for.'
Daily British Whig, Kingston, Ontario, 4 November 1867

When all candles bee out, all cats be grey. John Heywood. Circa 1565.Proverbs Chap. v.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.-- Oscar Levant

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. Abraham Lincoln

Every man is ignorant -- just on different subjects.... Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.-- Thomas Sowell

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Mark Twain

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. Mark Twain

I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)