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

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

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

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Author:Thomas Gray

“And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”

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Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.”

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Author:Ellar Coltrane

“I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.”

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Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.”

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Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938