Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.
Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it's given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves and congregate.
