who said ignorance is bliss?
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The saying “Ignorance is bliss” originates in Thomas Gray's poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1742). The quote goes: “Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.” Face it: you were better off not knowing that, weren't you? Generally speaking, ignorance is a detestable state of mind.
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1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven; and Mr.
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If ignorance is bliss then why do you seek knowledge?? ... It was first asked to former Miss World, Priyanka Chopra who answered, “Ignorance may be called bliss, Knowledge is what makes us realized what ignorance is but is the knowledge that let us see and seek our potential and view the world in a wider perspective.
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Definition of ignorance is bliss. —used to say that a person who does not know about a problem does not worry about itHe never keeps up with the news or cares about the troubles in the world because he believes that ignorance is bliss.
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One of the most difficult questions asked in a beauty pageant. During Miss World 2000, Miss Uruguay was asked: "IF IGNORANCE IS BLISS, THEN WHY DO WE SEEK KNOWLEDGE?" ... "We will be happy indeed if we become ignorant with all the chaos and negativities that are happening around the world.
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Ezio Auditore Da Firenze When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. Now, in the twilight of my life, misunderstanding has passed into contentment.
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George Santayana Quotes The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” — Albert Einstein : quotes.
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“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.” ― Swami Vivekananda.
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Salvador Dali Famous quote: "Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it."
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“Action is the proper Fruit of Knowledge.” (Thomas Fuller)
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“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”
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Connotation/Denotation -Bliss: Literal definition is merely happy however the popular connotation refers to ignorant happiness while lacking realization of truth. -Tree:Represents growth, displays Bertha's movement towards realization. - Relationships and love. - Ignorance is Bliss.
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"IF IGNORANCE IS BLISS, THEN WHY DO WE SEEK KNOWLEDGE?" ... "We will be happy indeed if we become ignorant with all the chaos and negativities that are happening around the world.
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The 'bliss of solitude' means the blessings of loneliness. The poet William Wordsworth says that when he is alone in vacant and in pensive mood, i.e., when he is not doing anything particular, the daffodils which he had seen in the valley flash upon his inward eye and fill his heart with pleasure.
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Ignorance is bliss because we are usually not emotionally capable to handle what knowledge reveals to us. But usually, ignorance leads to wrong actions and we have to suffer the consequences of those wrong actions … thus ignorance may be bliss, but not for very long (!).
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You know that great line from Yeats “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” It is from his poem The Second Coming, written in 1919 in the aftermath of the first World War. A magnificent work, which reflected the mood of a world distraught. The ceremony of innocence is drowned.”