Willful Ignorance Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities,… — M. Scott Peck
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. — George MacDonald Fraser
...when you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless... — Ani DiFranco
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. — Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at… — Aldous Huxley
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. — Abraham Lincoln
Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such… — Michelle Malkin
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. — James A. Michener
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
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
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
Humans see what they want to see. — Rick Riordan
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the… — Isaac Asimov
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
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman… — Anne Rice
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

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