Willful Ignorance Quotes - Page 2

• Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dark, Appreciate, Wish

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

  Iain Pears

  Jobs, Years, Civilization

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin

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• . . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Powerful, Confused, Heart

  Joyce Carol Oates (2014). “Rape: A Love Story”, p.89, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Humans see what they want to see.

  Rick Riordan

  Ignorance, Knowing, Perspective

  "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, July 1, 2005.

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• 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. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Tired, Trying

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.84, Macmillan

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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 who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Men, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.353, Ballantine Books

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• It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Ignorance, Sometimes, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

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• Informing people about the world's problems opens up the possibility to address them and change them. Anything else is simply willful ignorance. I mean, what the hell should we do? Sit around blowing up balloons? Watching Disney-sponsored movies? I don't think so.

  Henry Giroux

  Ignorance, Mean, Thinking

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• 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 benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.

  Willie Parker

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

  Federico Fellini

  Ignorance, Want, Knows

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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

  Music, Country, Growing Up

  Song: Animal, Album: Educated Guess, 2004

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• [T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Book, Writing

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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 their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• 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

  Mean, Ignorance, Knowledge

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

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• People see what they want to see.

  Red Barber

  Ignorance, Knowing, People

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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 willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

  Michelle Malkin

  Birthday, Jobs, Ignorance

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• It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Ignorance, Appreciate, Fickle

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.209, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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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

  War, Failure, Ignorance

  James A. Michener “SPACE”

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• People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse 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.

  Zedd

  Motivational, Lying, Stupid

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