IGNORANCE is bliss?
2006-11-08 04:29:04 · 13 answers · asked by Thumper 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.
It's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
2006-11-08 08:19:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That what you don't know anything about can't worry you. Not always a good thing. If you're unaware there's a bus bearing down on you, you'll be perfectly blissful till the thing runs over you.
2006-11-08 12:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dragon will give an example:
One of her coworkers called in sick and told Dragon that he had been throwing up all night. Dragon did NOT need to know this, because it put disgusting images in her head. When she was ignorant of this fact, she was very happy. After learning it, she was not.
That is what it means.
2006-11-08 12:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by VLIGER DRAGÖN 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It think it means what you don't know won't hurt you. Its like the statement...I'd rather be devistated by the truth than made happy with a lie.
2006-11-08 12:39:38 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are ignorant that means you jest don't know and some times its better to not know
2006-11-08 12:32:55 · answer #5 · answered by delmonticoman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means sometimes not knowing is better. Like if you have cancer and it is terminal, wouldn't you rather not know and just be happy then spend your last days worrying about it?
2006-11-08 12:31:47 · answer #6 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, guess that is bliss
2006-11-08 19:30:51 · answer #7 · answered by morris 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are ignorant about a problem, then you don't have to worry about it, right? If you are aware of a problem you have to deal with it. (most people do, anyway.)
2006-11-08 12:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It means that sometimes you're better off not knowing something. Usually they're right.
2006-11-08 12:34:00 · answer #9 · answered by T.G. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know just think it means that it is said like nothing
2006-11-08 12:32:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋