What is "ignorance is bliss"

prov. 1 Lack of knowledge results in happiness. 2 You are more comfortable if you don't know something.

Ignorance Is Bliss is the fourth studio album by the punk rock band Face to Face, released in 1999. The album was a musical and lyrical departure from the pop-punk or skate-punk influenced music found on previous albums and EPs.

Though an 'EconoLive 2' tour was done in promotion of the album, the band does not currently play any of the songs from the album while touring. Trever Keith flatly refused to play anything from this album on their minitour, according to an interview video on their official MySpace page. In 2012, the band had a change of heart and decided to go on tour and perform the entire album acoustically. This album's song "The Devil You Know (God's A Man)" is featured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer first soundtrack album.

The album was reissued in 2012 on Trevor Keith's own label, Antagonist Records, with the songs from "Why Aren't You Happy? EP" as bonus tracks.

"Ignorance is bliss" is a phrase coined by Thomas Gray in his Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

Ignorance Is Bliss may also refer to:

• Ignorance Is Bliss (album), a 1999 album by Face to Face
• Ignorance Is Bliss (House), a 2009 episode of House
• "Ignorance is Bliss", a song by punk rock band Ramones, from their Brain Drain (album) (1989)
• "Ignorance is Bliss", a song by San Francisco 90s rock band Jellyfish, from the compilation album Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' (1991)
• "Ignorance is Bliss", a song by Swedish death metal band Defleshed, from their album "Reclaim the Beat" (2005)
• "Ignorance is Bliss", a song by hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar, from his album "Overly Dedicated" (2010)
• Ignorance Is Bliss, a BBC radio adaptation of the American comedy quiz It Pays to Be Ignorant which ran on the Light Programme from 1946 until 1950
• "Alice: Ignorance Is Bliss", a short documentary following the relationship between an 84-year-old dementia sufferer and her grandson.

"Ignorance Is Bliss" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of House. It aired on November 23, 2009.