“The ignorant are not blissful; they are the butt of a joke they're not even aware of.”
Neil Strauss (1973) American writer
Rules of the Game: The Style Diaries (2007)
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“If knowledge is power, ignorance cannot be bliss.”
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As quoted in Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong https://books.google.com/books?id=5m2_xeJ4VdwC&dq=%22although+he+may+be+poor+not+a+man%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s (2007), New York: New Press, p. 342 <br class="br">2000s, 2007, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (2007)
“[…] where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian