Willful Ignorance Quotes
Willful Ignorance Quote of the day
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.
