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It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation — Keigo Higashino

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. To quickly grasp this concept, think of United States — James C. Collins

Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister — George R R Martin

Freedom is never easy to keep and can easily be lost. All it takes is willful indifference. — Terry Goodkind

If the guardian or the mother
Tell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last. — Samuel Johnson

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. — Terry Goodkind

To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects. — Brian Sutton-Smith

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people. — Johnny Marr

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? — John Green

There is a lot of willful irresponsibility in electrical utility companies. — Steven Magee

Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates. — William Vaughn Moody

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. — Brandon Sanderson

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. — George MacDonald Fraser

Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led. — Samuel Daniel

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments. — Steven Magee

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. — Ayn Rand

Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence. — Irving Howe

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence. — D. A. Carson

There was a willful calm and happiness. I think people can decide to be happy. Maybe that was it. — Robert Reeves

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride. — Patrick Rothfuss

There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation. — Steven Magee

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no. — E. E. Cummings

Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I've had. — Rob Delaney

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form. — Wesley Snipes

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want. — Ashley Judd

Courage is willful hope. — Joanna Russ

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. — Thomas A. Edison

Thought can be controlled and manipulated, but emotion is willful and unpredictable. — Robert McKee

Was there anything as innocent as willful self-destruction? — Christopher Bollen

Christians, pray for an outpouring of God's Spirit upon a willful, evil, unrepentant world. — Billy Graham

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore

Keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent, and cleansed from blatant rebellion. Psalm 19:13 — Beth Moore

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 ... — Ani DiFranco

[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness. — Michael Warner

It's much easier not to know things sometimes. — Stephen Chbosky

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. — James A. Michener

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. — Joyce Carol Oates

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light. — Steven Magee

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? — Martin Freeman

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. — Aleister Crowley

She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn't even tell him. — Justine Dell

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle

Humans see what they want to see. — Rick Riordan

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. — Frank Zappa

Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark. — Erin Morgenstern

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken

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. — Plato

The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead. — James S.A. Corey

Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud. — Christina Engela

I only punish willful disobedience. — Red Phoenix

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know. — Federico Fellini

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov

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. — Elizabeth Moon

If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them. — Paul Murray

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few. — Lyndon B. Johnson

A man is responsible for his ignorance. — Milan Kundera

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck

Rebels depend on willful gullibility. — Dan Jones

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. — Benjamin Franklin

I have always been willful and stubborn. It is one of my greatest sins."

"But is it a sin? If it allows you to survive? Endure? Prevail? — Robin LaFevers

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. — Jodi Picoult