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.
Tags: thinking willful-ignorance
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin FranklinTags: willful-ignorance
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Ayn RandTags: willful-ignorance unpleasant-truth
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 GoodkindTags: willful-ignorance public-opinion wizard-s-rules
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PlatoTags: fear willful-ignorance darkness light dishonesty
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 science.
Charles DarwinTags: science certainty knowledge willful-ignorance ignorance open-mindedness
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnTags: willful-ignorance stubbornness
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.
Søren KierkegaardTags: truth willful-ignorance self-deception fools blindness willful-blindness
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinTags: willful-ignorance ignorance close-mindedness
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard DawkinsTags: willful-ignorance religion
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