Willful Ignorance Quotes
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Willful Ignorance Quotes & Sayings
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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
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
— George MacDonald Fraser
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
— Ayn Rand
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
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
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
— James A. Michener
It's much easier not to know things sometimes.
— Stephen Chbosky
There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.
— Steven Magee
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.
— Federico Fellini
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
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
— Benjamin Franklin
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
— Jared Diamond
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
— John Steinbeck
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
— Milan Kundera
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
Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I've had.
— Rob Delaney
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.
— Christina Engela
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
Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
— Erin Morgenstern
Humans see what they want to see.
— Rick Riordan
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
