Willful Ignorance Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

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• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Mean, Democracies Have

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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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

  Prejudice, Sin, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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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

  Thinking, People, Five

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

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• There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Ignorance, Dark, Simple

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.252, Ballantine Books

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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, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

  M. Scott Peck

  Ignorance, Pride, Evil

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.302, Random House

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• But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

  Ray Bradbury

  Ignorance, People, World

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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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

  Ignorance, Two, Political

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Ignorance, Walking Through Life, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Ignorance, Self, Law

  Holly Lisle (2001). “The Secret Texts”, p.194, Hachette UK

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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 centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

  John Steinbeck

  Stupid, Ignorance, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.250, Penguin

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• Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.

  Shiv Khera

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Way

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 26, 2015

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  Confucius

  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man is responsible for his ignorance.

  Milan Kundera

  Ignorance, Men, Responsible

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• People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

  Terry Goodkind

  Lying, Stupid, Believe

  "Wizard's First Rule". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 15, 1994.

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