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#1

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#2

“Humans see what they want to see.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: humanity, humans, mankind, perception, self-delusion, willful-ignorance

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#3

“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.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#4

“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 Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: lies, lying, truth, willful-ignorance

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#5

“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 Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

tags: public-opinion, willful-ignorance, wizard-s-rules

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#6

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance

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#7

“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 Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: ignorance, satisfaction, understanding, willful-ignorance

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#8

“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 Darwin, The Descent of Man

tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance

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#9

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: stubbornness, willful-ignorance

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#10

“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

tags: ignorance, man, men, resonsibility, willful-ignorance

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#11

“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: willful-ignorance

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#12

“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

tags: liber-librae, thelema, willful-ignorance

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#13

“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 Fry, The Fry Chronicles

tags: curiosity, willful-ignorance

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#14

“Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

tags: willful-ignorance

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#15

“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. Tepper, The Fresco

tags: intelligent-design, religion, willful-ignorance

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#16

“This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: comfort-lies, defensiveness, ignorance-is-bliss, willful-ignorance

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#17

“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.”
― Hendrick Willem Van Loon

tags: education, hendrick-van-loon, ignorance, society, willful-ignorance

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#18

“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 privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”
― Tim Wise

tags: american-culture, black-and-white, black-history, george-zimmerman, hypocricy, isms, privilege, race-relations, racism, the-oj-simpson-trial, trayvon-martin, white-privilege, willful-ignorance

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#19

“The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: government-corruption, ignorance, politics, willful-ignorance

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#20

“. . . 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 Oates

tags: justice, rape-a-love-story, truth, willful-ignorance

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#21

“...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 powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.

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 privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”
― Tim Wise

tags: american-culture, black-and-white, black-history, george-zimmerman, hypocricy, privilege, race-relations, racism, trayvon-martin, white-privilege, willful-ignorance

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#22

“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.”
― Tim Wise

tags: american-culture, black-and-white, black-history, george-zimmerman, hypocricy, privilege, race-relations, racism, the-oj-simpson-trial-verdict, trayvon-martin, white-people, white-privilege, willful-ignorance

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#23

“If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.”
― Paul Murray

tags: cynicism, willful-ignorance

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#24

“Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.”
― DaShanne Stokes

tags: blind, blind-faith, blindness, democrats, followers, following, following-the-crowd, government, government-quotes, party-loyalty, party-politics, political-parties, politics, politics-of-the-united-states, politics-quotes, republicans, truth, truth-quotes, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#25

“A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.”
― DaShanne Stokes

tags: followers, following, following-the-crowd, fool, fool-quotes, foolishness, fools, ignorance, ignorance-of-people, ignorance-quotes, leaders, leadership, leadership-characteristics, leadership-quotes, leadership-traits, stupidity, stupidity-quotes, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#26

“Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming.”
― John Wray

tags: history, ignorance, war, willful-ignorance

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#27

“Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded.”
― Mike Klepper

tags: excusing-evil, justice, willful-ignorance

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