If Ignorance Is Bliss Quotes

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Freedom, Ignorance

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

  Thomas Gray

  Inspirational, Wise, Ignorance

  "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" l. 99 (1747)

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• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

  Stephen Fry

  Happiness, Success, Ignorance

  "QI: Albania". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

  Nancy Reagan

  Death, Thinking, People

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

  Henry James

  Alive, Forget, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.

  Victor Lewis-Smith

  Order, Dying, Ignorance Is Bliss

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Humorous, Ignorance, Profound

  "Song: Settle for nothing (Rage Against The Machine)". November 3, 1992.

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• Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

  Thomas Gray

  Children, Parenting, Play

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 51

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

  LeCrae

  Ignorance, Cuz, Bliss

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• If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, World, Bliss

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