Quotes on Ignorance Is Bliss

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.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

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.

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 truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.