Top Willful Ignorance Quotes

...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is p...

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, nur...

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privi...

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.

After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powe...

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...

Humans see what they want to see.

Both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many a...

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

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

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

He didn’t believe that, surely. Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being...

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

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.

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.