“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
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
“Willful ignorance is blissful only in the mind of a remarkable fool.” — Tracey Bond 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
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
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
...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
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
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
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. — Benjamin Franklin 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
“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 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
“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
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... — Richard Dawkins 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
“(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
“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
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
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
“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
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
