“Ignorance is inexcusable; it’s the surest way to fail. No acceptable reason for not being well-informed.”
—Donald Trump tweet, April 26, 2013.
“…[I]gnorance is not bliss. It’s fatal. It’s costly. And it’s for losers. You either get organized or get crushed.”
—Donald Trump tweet, Jan. 27, 2014.
“After I had won, everybody was calling me from all over the world. I never knew we had so many countries.”
—Trump, at a state dinner in Japan, November 2017.
“[T]he Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware, and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”
—Donald Trump speech confusing the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the 20th century, July 4, 2019.
“Nobody briefed or told me.”
—Donald Trump tweet, June 26, 2020. [Some things are just worth reiterating.]
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 6, 1968.
Louisiana Voice 
No way to say it better than MLK…
Ignorance is another form of narcissism.
JacDog: especially the “willful” kind of ignorance…the height of narcissism!
JacDog: I agree….but, “willful ignorance” is the height of ignorance! There is none more dangerous than those that do not want to know that they do not know…
A professor asked his students if they knew the difference between ignorance and apathy.
One replied: “I don’t know. And I don’t care.”
Agree with Mr. Winham
trump’s ignorance is not our bliss.
On your ignorance and apathy joke, EWE often used that in a bittersweet story about being on the campaign trail, going into a country store and saying to those assembled there, “The 2 biggest problems facing Louisiana are ignorance and apathy”, whereupon an old guy sitting next to the pot-bellied stove replied, “Well, I don’t know and I don’t care.” It was bittersweet because there was a lot of truth in it.