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.
Richard DawkinsMots clés willful-ignorance ignorance understanding satisfaction
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Humans see what they want to see.
Rick RiordanMots clés perception humanity willful-ignorance mankind humans self-delusion
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac AsimovMots clés science willful-ignorance religion
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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 CrowleyMots clés willful-ignorance thelema liber-librae
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 RiceMots clés willful-ignorance book-lovers aliteracy bibliophiles zealotry
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
John SteinbeckMots clés stupidity willful-ignorance
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P.J. O'RourkeMots clés willful-ignorance society-s-increasing-stupidity
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 HuxleyMots clés willful-ignorance change innovation
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
Milan KunderaMots clés man men willful-ignorance ignorance resonsibility
The 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. TepperMots clés willful-ignorance religion intelligent-design
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