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Etymology[edit]
From Thomas Gray's poem, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742): "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."[1]
Proverb[edit]
ignorance is bliss
- Lack of knowledge results in happiness; it is more comfortable not to know certain things.
Translations[edit]
Ignorance is bliss
- Albanian: padituri është bekim
- Arabic: الْجَهْل نَعِيمَهُ (al-jahl naʿīmahu)
- Egyptian Arabic: الجهل راحه (el-gahl(e) rāḥa)
- Armenian: Շատ բան իմանաս, շուտ կծերանաս (Šat ban imanas, šut kceranas)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無知是福, 无知是福 (wúzhī shì fú), 難得糊塗, 难得糊涂 (nándé hútu)
- Czech: nevědomost je sladká
- Danish: uvidenhed er en velsignelse
- Dutch: het geluk is met de onwetenden, wat niet weet, wat niet deert, Zalig zijn de onwetenden
- Esperanto: senscio estas beato
- Finnish: tieto lisää tuskaa
- French: bienheureux celui qui ne connaît pas la vérité
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: das ist das Glück der Unwissenden, was ich nicht weiß, macht mich nicht heiß, Unwissenheit ist Seligkeit
- Greek: η άγνοια είναι ευτυχία (i ágnoia eínai eftychía)
- Hebrew: מרבה ידע מרבה צרות
- Hungarian: a tudatlanság áldás
- Italian: l'ignoranza è una benedizione, beata ignoranza!
- Japanese: 無知は至福である (むちはしふくである, muchi wa shifuku dearu), 知らぬが仏 (ja) (shiranu ga hotoke)
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