Ignorance is bliss?

Question

i know this is kinda stupid, but i really never understood the meaning behind "ignorance is bliss" I've heard it many times but never understood it. Someone please explain!

Answer 1

It means that if you don't know something, then it can't affect the your view of the world. For example, if a person is completely ignorant of the sciences, the contradicting information can't challenge their belief in whichever religion they're a part of.

Answer 2

Ignorance Is Bliss

Answer 3

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(((Cassie))) I hope you're well too :) I've never read anything by Montaigne, so I don't know the context of that quote, but he doesn't seem to me, on the face of it, to be saying that ignorance is bliss. It is true--isn't it?--that the price for judgement and knowledge has been a high one, and even having paid it we still lack so much awareness and understanding... it does make me wonder if we haven't been ripped off. I'm reminded, somewhat, of something Neil Gaiman wrote in (I think) American Gods, where he talks about man being an island because if we were not; if we really understood and knew existence we would be overcome by the torment of it. It's not an original sentiment, but it struck me as being well written at the time. If I remember rightly he uses the example of starving children. And right now, as I type this, there are countless children starving to death. There are people trapped or drowned in the floods in Pakistan, people being murdered, raped, tortured... there is an endless litany of suffering. I wonder if we could really cope with the 'gift' of real understanding, and real awareness. Montaigne is saying, as far as I can tell, that the price was excessive, but we've paid it nonetheless. I would be surprised if Montaigne had wished otherwise. The reality is that we have a balance between ignorance and understanding. Absolute ignorance would not be bliss, as such, because we would likely not be sufficiently aware to know that it is bliss, but equally our understanding has its limits--our awareness of the suffering of others, particularly, perhaps. And thus we live and learn and ignore. Dawkins' quote is so sparse that I find it difficult to have any sort of opinion on it, really. I'm not sure that I very often feel blessed when I learn something 'unwelcome', and frankly I rather doubt that he does either. It sounds a little like one of the grand statements people say that we think we might like to be true, but don't actually have all that much correspondence with reality. I don't suppose our feelings are quite so uniform.

Answer 4

Blissful Definition

Answer 5

I've always thought of it as some type of mental block. People can do things that are wrong, but pretend it doesn't matter because they don't know any better. They continue to live in their ignorance, because what they are doing is so joyful to them. They can hurt anyone or anything and not have a concious about it; no regrets. I personally don't think regret is bad unless you dwell on it. It shows that a person has a deeper sense of self and love for his fellow man and nature.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

My Mother explained it to us like this, 'it is easy, it takes no effort to know nothing,(life of ease) with no desire to achieve nothing; To be wise will take some long study nights and we sacrifice a lot to achieve goals of intelligence, yes it is far better.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It is unfortunately. People who believe that the world is nothing but butterflies and rainbows are so up in the clouds they dont know some ugly truths. Ernest Hemingway was once quoted as saying that smart people are often never happy, the reason being that they know much more about the world, the good and the bad. People who were brought up believing in only beautiful things, are blind of the horrific parts of the world, they are delusional.

Answer 10

I think it means that if you don't know about something bad that may be going on in the world or being said about you behind your back etc, then you can carry on your own merry little way happily - so put another way being ignorant to certain horrid facts means you can continue being blissfully happy.