Willful Ignorance Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
— Holly Lisle
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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
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The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
— George MacDonald Fraser
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...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
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
— James A. Michener
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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
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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
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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
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Humans see what they want to see.
— Rick Riordan
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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
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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
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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
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
— John Steinbeck
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A man is responsible for his ignorance.
— Milan Kundera
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