``All wonder,'' said Samuel Johnson, ``is the effect of novelty on ignorance.'' Yet we are so created that without something to wonder at we should find life scarcely worth living. That fact does not make ignorance bliss, or make it ``folly to be wise.'' For the wisest man never gets beyond the reach of novelty, nor can ever make it his boast that there is nothing he is ignorant of; on the contrary, the wiser he becomes the more clearly he sees how much there is of which he remains in ignorance. The more he knows, the more he will find to wonder at.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
Then there is no such thing as ignorance, or men who are ignorant; for is not ignorance, if there be such a thing, a mistake of fact?英文原著 · 《Euthydemus》
The co-operation of intelligent and responsible native taxpayers, which could sweep away these administrative cobwebs of ignorance, is always at the disposal of the Government if they deigned to avail themselves of it; but they prefer, at enormous cost to the taxpayers (including native taxpayers), to purchase from the non-native section of the community arm-chair views based largely on hearsay evidence, which is often tainted by colour prejudice. Hence the shroud of ignorance which surrounds the native policy of the Union of South Africa.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
And then he asked himself what would be the consequence of telling her. She was a lady of great spirit, fire, and nobility. She would never live with this husband of hers. And then came the question, What would be her life? She might be maid, wife, and widow all her days. Horrible as it was, he began almost to fear her one miserable chance of happiness might lie in ignorance. But then how long could she be in ignorance? Little was coming home; he would certainly speak out.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
"And then, too," resumed the Baron, speaking more deliberately as he recovered his self-possession, "this man, by way of a warning, shows me, at a glance, his whole ignorance of the state. What think you? he has mingled with the mob, and taken their rank breath for power; yes, he thinks words are soldiers, and bade me - me, Stephen Colonna - beware - of whom, think you? No, you will never guess! - of that speech-maker, Rienzi! my own old jesting guest! - the ignorance of these barbarians! and the old man laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks.英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
In short, men will find out that the men of our days were wrong in first multiplying their needs, and then trying, each man of them, to evade all participation in the means and processes whereby those needs are satisfied; that this kind of division of labour is really only a new and wilful form of arrogant and slothful ignorance, far more injurious to the happiness and contentment of life than the ignorance of the processes of Nature, of what we sometimes call SCIENCE, which men of the earlier days unwittingly lived in.英文原著 · 《Signs of Change》