Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Hendrik Willem van LoonTag: education society willful-ignorance ignorance hendrick-van-loon
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 SandersonTag: humor willful-ignorance warbreaker
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 BradburyTag: truth lies willful-ignorance lying
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
Jodi PicoultTag: willful-ignorance
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.
Federico FelliniTag: willful-ignorance
. . . 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 OatesTag: truth justice willful-ignorance rape-a-love-story
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.
Stephen ChboskyTag: willful-ignorance
There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
Stephen FryTag: willful-ignorance curiosity
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
Martin FreemanTag: humor willful-ignorance literacy funny
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 PearsTag: knowledge evil willful-ignorance civilization guilt responsibility cowardice personal-responsibility genocide nazis hitler blame denunciation deportation
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