What is the meaning of [What you don’t know won’t hurt you]

What you do not know will not worry or harm you. The expression is most often
used, to justify not giving information to somone to avoid potential damage if
it subsequently becomes known that he/she was in possession of the full facts
before a particular course was followed.

> What my aunt doesn’t know won’t hurt her and we don’t need to tell her about
the broken dish.