William Shakespeare Quotes About Ignorance

• In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance

• The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570

• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.521

• I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Darkness

  1601 Feste to Malvolio.Twelfth Night, act 4, sc.2, l.43-4.

• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Names, Mad

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.201, BookCaps Study Guides

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