A Quote by Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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

Stephen Fry

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Jim Rohn

That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.

Art Alexakis

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Thomas Jefferson

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

John Milton

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

David Levithan

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

Ruth Stout

They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss.

Ryan Miller

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.

Dean Koontz

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

Gayle Lynds

Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

Ramakrishna

...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

Ramana Maharshi

Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?

Cat Stevens

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.

Scott Spencer

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Philip Wylie

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