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- where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise proverb It is better to remain unaware or ignorant of things that may otherwise cause one stress; if you don't know about something, you don't need to worry about it.
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Folly to Be Wise: Directed by Frank Launder. With Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver, Colin Gordon. Newly arrived Army chaplin Captain Paris (Alastair Sim) attempts to book various acts for the entertainment of a troop of soldiers.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Frank Launder
- 1953-12-06
91 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Folly to Be Wise is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder and starring Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver, Colin Gordon, Martita Hunt and Edward Chapman. It is based on the play It Depends What You Mean by James Bridie. [1]
- Temple Abady
- British Lion Film Corporation
The last line "'Tis folly to be wise" is a contradiction. "No more" is used as "This should stop". The sentence becomes clear if it is extended like this: No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. But rather: where ignorance is cowardice, it's brave to be wise.
Jan 22, 2013 · Gray’s ode ends, “Where ignorance is bliss,/ Tis folly to be wise,” an assertion that has attained the status of a proverb and can be discussed for many fruitful hours on its own or in...
He is well known for his phrase, "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," from Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. It has been asserted that the Ode also abounds with images which find "a mirror in every mind". [29]
- 26 December 1716, Cornhill, London, England
- Poet, historian
- 30 July 1771 (aged 54), Cambridge, England
Dec 1, 2020 · ’Tis Folly to be wise. These are the earliest occurrences of the phrase that I have found, in chronological order—apart from the citations of, and the allusions to, An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College: 1-: From An Epistle to a Friend, from St Andrew’s.
where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. proverb It is better to remain unaware or ignorant of things that may otherwise cause one stress; if you don't know about something, you don't need to worry about it. From the 1742 poem "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," by Thomas Gray.
