The phrase “Ignorance is bliss” was coined in 1742 by the English poet Thomas Gray and appears in his “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.”
Ignorance is indeed bliss, but to live a good life, you can’t just go around being blissfully ignorant. You have to strike a balance between “Ignorance is bliss” and the phrase Sir Francis Bacon gave the world…
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