Ignorance Is Bliss
"Ignorance is bliss" is a phrase coined by Thomas Gray in his 1768 "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College". The sentiment was already expressed by Publilius Syrus: In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est ("In knowing nothing, life is most delightful").
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Ignorance Is Bliss may also refer to:
Music
- Ignorance Is Bliss (Face to Face album), a 1999 album by Face to Face
- Ignorance Is Bliss (Skepta album), a 2019 album by Skepta
- "Ignorance Is Bliss" (Tiddas song), a 1996 song by Tiddas
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a song by punk rock band Ramones, from their Brain Drain (album) (1989)
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a song by San Francisco '90s rock band Jellyfish, from the compilation album Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' (1991)
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a song by American rock band Living Colour, from their Stain (album) (1992)
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a song by Swedish death metal band Defleshed, from their album Reclaim the Beat (2005)
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a song by hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar, from his album Overly Dedicated (2010)
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a song by the American metalcore band Beartooth, from their album Disgusting (2014)
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a song by hip hop artist Reks from his album REBELutionary (2012)
Other uses
- Ignorance Is Bliss (film), a 2017 Italian film directed by Massimiliano Bruno
- Ignorance Is Bliss (House), a 2009 episode of House
- Alice: Ignorance Is Bliss, a short 2014 documentary following the relationship between an 84-year-old woman diagnosed with dementia and her grandson
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", a famous line said by the character Cypher from the movie The Matrix (1999)
- Ignorance Is Bliss, a BBC radio adaptation of the American comedy quiz It Pays to Be Ignorant, which ran on the Light Programme from 1946 until 1950
See also
- Ignorance (disambiguation)
- Bliss (disambiguation)
- Blissful ignorance effect
- "Ignorance is strength", a phrase used in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
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