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Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, known as If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? in the United States, is the third title in a series of books based on the intellectual British panel game QI, written by series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson. It is a book of "quite interesting" quotations.
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter.
Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC [1]), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae.He was a Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy.Syrus was brought to Rome on the same ship that brought a certain Manilius, astronomer - not the famous Manilius of the 1st century AD (see Pliny, NH X, 4-5), and Staberius Eros the grammarian. [2]
Ignorance is bliss, according to Nicolas Philibert, director of BAFTA nominee “To Be and to Have” and Berlin best film winner “On the Adamant,” discussing his approach to documentary ...
Ignorance is bliss" may refer to: "Ignorance Is Bliss", a phrase coined by English poet Thomas Gray in his 1742 " Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College " "In knowing nothing, life is most delightful" ( In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est ), a quote by Publilius Syrus
Mark Lilla’s most recent book, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, is an essayistic examination of the human will to ignorance.Ranging from the Book of Genesis and Plato’s dialogues to Sufi parables and Sigmund Freud, he explores the many paradoxes of hiding truth from ourselves, as well as the fantasies this impulse lead human beings to entertain―the illusion that the ecstasies ...
No more;—where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (full text here) Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over; Where there is a will there is a way; Where there is muck there is brass; Where there is life there is hope [37] Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right; While there is life there is hope; Who will bell the cat? Whom the Gods love die young