Question

Ignorance Is Bliss it is better not to know bad news sometimes, especially if you're happy

Accepted Answer

The bad news can wait until tomorrow. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Many writers over the centuries have expressed this idea. The Greek playwright Sophocles wrote it around 400 b.c. Nineteen hundred years later Erasmus, a Dutch scholar, quoted it. Then Thomas Gray, the British poet of the 1700s, used it in one of his poems. He wrote: "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." It has been a popular saying ever since.

Idiom	Ignorance Is Bliss
Example	The bad news can wait until tomorrow. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
Meaning	it is better not to know bad news sometimes, especially if you're happy
Origin	Many writers over the centuries have expressed this idea. The Greek playwright Sophocles wrote it around 400 b.c. Nineteen hundred years later Erasmus, a Dutch scholar, quoted it. Then Thomas Gray, the British poet of the 1700s, used it in one of his poems. He wrote: "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." It has been a popular saying ever since.

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