Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
“Willful ignorance is blissful only in the mind of a remarkable fool.” — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” “No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance… — Earl Lee Copy Share Image
To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time… — Steven Erikson 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
“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
“Willful ignorance is an insult to the collective of human intelligence. Considering the vast amount of knowledge that is easily available, it… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because… — Zedd Copy Share Image
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“. Christianity is marketed as a religion of love and tolerance, but inwardly it is a destructive virus that causes division, promotes… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is… — Mike Klepper Copy Share Image
“(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
“There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image