There is no darkness but ignorance. – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 4, Scene 2. Feste to Malvolio. Malvolio was certainly ignorant to think that his employer Olivia could ever fall in love with her servant.
The American people are going to throw you out of office. You will be repudiated and disgraced. You’ll leave nothing behind but the stench of epic failure. No American has ever failed this country worse than you. None. Your incompetence, ignorance, ineptitude, and old fashioned stupidity have caused economic collapse and made the US the epicenter of Coronavirus death and suffering. You have shattered American Alliances and weakened our military. You are a disgrace. Your name will be a synonym for losing, failure, and weakness. – Steve Schmidt On Donald Trump.
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. – George Orwell 1984. Part 1, Chapter 1. Ingsoc party slogan, which appears throughout the novel. It is a good example of ‘doublethink’, the act of believing contradicting ideas simultaneously.
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. – Hilaire Belloc
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. – Guru Nanak
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. – Henry Rollins
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. – H. P. Lovecraft
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. – Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes it’s best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees. – Howard Jacobson
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. – Harry Lorayne
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. – George Gillespie
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God. – George H. White
I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance. – Hideki Tojo
It’s no surprise that the Bush administration’s bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard. – Graydon Carter
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. – James A. Baldwin