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To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.
Sep 10, 2025
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.
The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.
I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...
If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss.
I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.
If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?
When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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, 'T is folly to be wise.
Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
The truth is more important than the facts.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.