Blissful Ignorance Quotes

When ignorance is bliss, / Tis folly to be wise.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn't perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America's ever had. We were basking in the glow. We forgot that there's always going to be a backlash within a movement every time. When I think about race, there were a lot of pockets of people that were still living in fear under the Obama administration, but we were in this blissful celebration mode. Now we are constantly reminded that, although there are lots of good people in the world, there are just as many horrible people.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

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

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The more you know the less the better.

...why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole of my life–and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

I think the way my modeling career took off, I did not expect. It was definitely not a ripple in my mind. I just never thought it was going to happen like this. I'm just here and I'm having fun and I'm trying to smile and not think about it too much. That's the hardest thing in life. I think about things way too much. Ignorance is totally bliss.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.