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
“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
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable. — David Brock Copy Share Image
“Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I’ve had.” — Rob Delaney 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 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
...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
“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
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
[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
“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
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
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
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
“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
When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis… — Iain Pears 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
“(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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and… — Patrick Rothfuss 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