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  • False. You could have terminal cancer, and see no symptoms. But it's still a danger and is fatal. Take that as an example.
  • false. if i don't know there is a nuclear bomb about to fall on my house, i will still be incinerated.
  • false someone might want to kill you and if you dont know it heheh life will be over.
  • Could not be more false.
  • I think it truly depends on the matter. Something serious and life threatening, then yeah you need to know the truth, but those little things.. Those little tiny matters that would just crush you if you knew, those things I think could be left unknown.
  • Completely false. Sometimes the most dangerous things are the things you don't know about.
  • I always thought that was the stupidest "saying". It only works for people who walk around with their heads in the sand.
  • "Ignorance is bliss" is a better way of putting it.
  • No there are many things that can hurt you if you don't know about them. If you don't know that mixing Clorox and ammonia can produce a poisonous gas and kill you; then, that is something that can hurt you by not knowing it. There are literally thousands of things you are better off knowing about.
  • Knowledge is Power.
  • True - If you had no knowledge of a mob hit you will most likely not be hurt since your not a witness
  • False. Completely and unequivocally false. "If you think education's expensive...try ignorance." Derek Bok, acting president of Harvard University, 2006 - 2007, and former president, 1971 - 1991.
  • Yes! If my husband cheated on me , I would want to know so I could be tested for STD's ...etc.
  • Yes. If you have a curable disease and don't know it, you won't be cured and could die. That would really hurt.
  • False. someone could have been hired to kill you and if you didn't know then your out of luck. Or someone can steal your identity and you don't know until the day you find out you have no credit and you owe all of this money for stuff that you didn't buy.
  • False - just because you don't know a speeding bus is about to run you over dosn't mean the bus won't hurt you when it hits you.
  • This saying is only a half truth. If you have cancer, it can hurt you, even if you don't know about it. This saying only applies if: - you have really no idea that there is something to know. - the only difference by knowing the truth would be making you worry more. But if you know that something is wrong, but you don't know what it is, it could eventually hurt more that the truth. Further information: - "What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You - But What You Do Know Can't Hurt You Either": http://ezinearticles.com/?What-You-Dont-Know-Cant-Hurt-You---But-What-You-Do-Know-Cant-Hurt-You-Either&id=1517463 - "What you don’t know can’t hurt you" "But, what you don’t know, you will soon find out, so what you don’t know you should know, because you’ll find out sooner or later and it will hurt you. A lot." http://www.suite101.com/blog/ladyinred51/what_you_dont_know_cant_hurt_you - "The proverb is partially true...If I don't know what I don't know, it is true it does not hurt. But my actions without this knowledge will hurt." http://somethoughts-ec.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-you-dont-know-cannot-hurt-you.html

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