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 Copy Share Image
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are: a) willful ignorance b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“So many it seems, have made it their life's goal to bask in the ignorance of their certainty.” — John Chaplin Copy Share Image
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
...when you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
It's become a cliche to stare in mute horror at Donald Trump's endless stream of Twitter vomit, wondering what chthonic god finds… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Maybe you’re not a believer, but if you’re honest, you’ll have to agree that something is wrong with this place. Senseless violence,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of… — Richard Morgan Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Faith is often lauded as a positive quality, but it is, in fact, very intellectually lazy. Faith precludes scientific thinking and the… — Atheist Republic Copy Share Image
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“(When I say cyborgs, I of course mean us.) ... (Some seem unaccepting in this transformation, and it indeed has been gradual.… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
“We simply cannot engage with either the ills or promises of society if we continue to turn a blind eye to the… — Angel Kyodo Williams Copy Share Image
“There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“(Some seem unaccepting of this transformation, and it indeed has been gradual. In a sense it began when the first simple machines… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“I look away, farther down the hall, and I see Tish in line with her Sunday school class. Tish sees me and… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Being # IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE # RIGHT WAY. — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable. — David Brock Copy Share Image
![“[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made…” quote by Sheri S. Tepper](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/102/sheri-s-tepper-8133_action_t-he-scripture-worshippers-put-the-writi_160608.jpg)
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