Quotes on Willful Ignorance

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

. . . 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.

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

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

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."

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

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

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

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, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.