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The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead. ~ James S.A. Corey
Willful Ignorance quotes by James S.A. Corey
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. ~ Holly Lisle
Willful Ignorance quotes by Holly Lisle
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
Willful Ignorance quotes by Paul Murray
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 Rice
Willful Ignorance quotes by Anne Rice
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
Willful Ignorance quotes by Frank Zappa
Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark. ~ Erin Morgenstern
Willful Ignorance quotes by Erin Morgenstern
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 Sanderson
Willful Ignorance quotes by Brandon Sanderson
Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire. ~ Earl Lee
Willful Ignorance quotes by Earl Lee
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. ~ John Steinbeck
Willful Ignorance quotes by John Steinbeck
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 Dawkins
Willful Ignorance quotes by Richard Dawkins
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
Willful Ignorance quotes by N.K. Jemisin
Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is a grave error that demonstrates a willful ignorance of human nature. Moreover, it demonstrates a complete disregard for the responsibilities entrusted to us by the Founding Fathers to maintain robust checks and balances on the power of any arm of the government. That obviously raises some very serious questions. What happens to our government, our civil liberties and our basic democracy if the surveillance state is allowed to grow unchecked? As we have seen in recent days, the intelligence leadership is determined to hold on to this authority. Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government. ~ Ron Wyden
Willful Ignorance quotes by Ron Wyden
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
Willful Ignorance quotes by Jodi Picoult
Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way. ~ Dean Koontz
Willful Ignorance quotes by Dean Koontz
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ James A. Michener
Willful Ignorance quotes by James A. Michener
Lies bewitch us, if we want to be bewitched. ~ Marty Rubin
Willful Ignorance quotes by Marty Rubin
There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation. ~ Steven Magee
Willful Ignorance quotes by Steven Magee
He didn't believe that, surely." "Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn't want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said. ~ Isaac Asimov
Willful Ignorance quotes by Isaac Asimov
People see what they want to see. ~ John Green
Willful Ignorance quotes by John Green
Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution. ~ Jewel
Willful Ignorance quotes by Jewel
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 Pears
Willful Ignorance quotes by Iain Pears
Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of willful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls. ~ Steven Erikson
Willful Ignorance quotes by Steven Erikson
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
Willful Ignorance quotes by Tim Wise
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 Loon
Willful Ignorance quotes by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Willful Ignorance quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Willful ignorance is blissful only in the mind of a remarkable fool. ~ Tracey Bond
Willful Ignorance quotes by Tracey Bond
A man is responsible for his ignorance. ~ Milan Kundera
Willful Ignorance quotes by Milan Kundera
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? ~ Martin Freeman
Willful Ignorance quotes by Martin Freeman
We protected America from what happened, like a man takes care of his wife. The man doesn't mind when she closes her eyes at the scary part of the ride, of the movie. He loves her for that sweet, willful ignorance. She gives him something to protect, a nice world in which bad things don't happen. It's a pleasure, and a relief, to keep that ignorance intact, even as it comes between them. ~ Amy Bloom
Willful Ignorance quotes by Amy Bloom
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know. ~ Federico Fellini
Willful Ignorance quotes by Federico Fellini
It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance. ~ Jeff Lindsay
Willful Ignorance quotes by Jeff Lindsay
The real plague is willful ignorance and education can't cure that. ~ Marty Rubin
Willful Ignorance quotes by Marty Rubin
Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses. ~ Richard Morgan
Willful Ignorance quotes by Richard Morgan
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. ~ George MacDonald Fraser
Willful Ignorance quotes by George MacDonald Fraser
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. ~ Ayn Rand
Willful Ignorance quotes by Ayn Rand
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 Huxley
Willful Ignorance quotes by Aldous Huxley
By the time this book is published, hundreds of thousands of American lives will have been sacrificed on the altar of Donald's hubris and willful ignorance. If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy. ~ Mary L. Trump
Willful Ignorance quotes by Mary L. Trump
Knowledge tossed away," she said, shivering a little in the desert chill. "Willful ignorance in the face of something we might have to work to understand." At ~ Richard K. Morgan
Willful Ignorance quotes by Richard K. Morgan
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
Willful Ignorance quotes by Aleister Crowley
The frantic stupidity of Wall Street's stock order routers and algorithms was simply an extension into the computer of the willful ignorance of its salespeople. ~ Michael Lewis
Willful Ignorance quotes by Michael Lewis
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
Willful Ignorance quotes by Mike Klepper
Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud. ~ Christina Engela
Willful Ignorance quotes by Christina Engela
. Christianity is marketed as a religion of love and tolerance, but inwardly it is a destructive virus that causes division, promotes willful ignorance and retards intellectual growth. ~ Al Stefanelli
Willful Ignorance quotes by Al Stefanelli
I think that the root of Willful Ignorance, is Fear. We'll return to that in a minute. But the root of Fear, is Simple Ignorance, at least I think that our original Fear is rooted in simply not understanding the World around us: not knowing. ~ Steve Bivans
Willful Ignorance quotes by Steve Bivans
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Willful Ignorance quotes by Benjamin Franklin
We don't live in a meritocracy, and to pretend that simple hard work will elevate all to success is an exercise in willful ignorance. ~ Reni Eddo-Lodge
Willful Ignorance quotes by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. ~ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Willful Ignorance quotes by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads. ~ Olivia Manning
Willful Ignorance quotes by Olivia Manning
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. ~ G.I. Gurdjieff
Willful Ignorance quotes by G.I. Gurdjieff
Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion.
This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas. ~ Paul R. Fleischman
Willful Ignorance quotes by Paul R. Fleischman
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance. ~ John Strachan
Willful Ignorance quotes by John Strachan
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Willful Ignorance quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. ~ Victor Hugo
Willful Ignorance quotes by Victor Hugo
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ~ Robert Browning
Willful Ignorance quotes by Robert Browning
Who cares about an enlightened phantom? Only the other phantoms. It always needs a community of ignorant ideas and one of them maybe is a master -ignorant. The master of ignorance! There are no masters of knowledge. How can there be a master of knowledge ? How can there be a master of Heart? You can only be a master of shit. ~ Karl Renz
Willful Ignorance quotes by Karl Renz
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live. ~ Vandana Shiva
Willful Ignorance quotes by Vandana Shiva
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king.. its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. ~ Nikola Tesla
Willful Ignorance quotes by Nikola Tesla
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance. ~ Theodosius Dobzhansky
Willful Ignorance quotes by Theodosius Dobzhansky
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Willful Ignorance quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
Your people, your guards-- they're nothing more than killers, rapists and thieves. The only difference between them and criminals is the uniform they wear."
She pulls herself to her feet and palms the tears from her eyes.
"Fool yourself all you want, little prince, but don't feign innocence with me. I won't let your father get away with what he's done. I won't let your ignorance silence my pain. ~ Tomi Adeyemi
Willful Ignorance quotes by Tomi Adeyemi
Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve myself, I must reply
No: I felt desolate to a degree. I felt
yes, idiot that I am
I felt degraded. I doubted I had taken a step which sank instead of raising me in the scale of social existence. I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw around me. But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong
that is a great step gained. I shall strive to overcome them. ~ Charlotte Bronte
Willful Ignorance quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it. ~ Kate Horsley
Willful Ignorance quotes by Kate Horsley
What I call stupidity is not only lack of knowledge, although much of humanity could be elevated from poverty, dogma, illusions and war through traditional education. A thriving education system is the foundation for progress. But stupidity is not merely ignorance; it can also be a way of acting. If you act contrary to your own goals in life – you're stupid. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Willful Ignorance quotes by Gudjon Bergmann
From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise ~ Samuel Johnson
Willful Ignorance quotes by Samuel Johnson
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been. ~ Fidel Castro
Willful Ignorance quotes by Fidel Castro
Merrill Meewee knew his stones. As a boy in Kenya, skipping stones was his favorite free-time activity. There had been an abundance of saucer-shaped missiles on the banks of his father's own fishpond. Fat, river-smoothed disks, they skipped ten, twelve, sixteen times before slipping beneath the surface with a watery plop. His father, a man of little wealth but great forbearance, was not pleased with his boy's solitary pastime, but he never ordered him to stop. Instead, he asked the boy how many stones he thought the pond could hold. I don't know, Meewee remembered answering. A hundred thousand?

Oh, such a big number! And how many stones do you suppose you've thrown already?

Merrill, who was an excellent student, calculated the number of stones he might have tossed in an hour and how many free hours were left each day after school and chores, how many afternoons in how many years since he first discovered the sport. I would estimate 14,850, he informed his father with a certain amount of swagger.

His father was impressed. So many? And all of them have gone to the bottom?

Of course they've gone to the bottom, he had said, embarrassed by his father's apparent ignorance. They're stones. They're heavier than water.

And heavier than fishes?

Of course heavier than fishes.

Good, good, his father concluded, patting him on the head. Keep at it, son, and soon I won't have to work so hard.

Fat ~ David Marusek
Willful Ignorance quotes by David Marusek
Our fascination with feminine beauty is elemental. It is said that men wish to possess the princess and women wish to be the princess, but I believe that is only part of the truth. We are drawn to extraordinary beauty mindlessly and purposelessly; we flutter on dusty moth wings toward the effulgence with no understanding of why we do it. Perhaps when we see a woman with the aspect of an angel, our souls are tricked into following her, mistaking her for a guide to paradise.

The opposite, of course, is also true. ~ Danielle Teller
Willful Ignorance quotes by Danielle Teller
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. ~ Mark Twain
Willful Ignorance quotes by Mark Twain
Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Willful Ignorance quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Willful Ignorance quotes by Brandon Sanderson
The impudence of Ignorance ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Willful Ignorance quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He has entertained the thought that his neighbours like having one of him in the district, having their own Englishman, although he will insist that he is as South African as they are. But perhaps his presence is more in the nature of a provocation, and his actions: he pretends ignorance but he knows what those spindly pink and white flowers mean to men who still punish themselves with every detail of their war, picking at it like the scab of the miniature Union Jack in the middle of the flag. ~ Claire Robertson
Willful Ignorance quotes by Claire Robertson
Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. ~ Patrick Rothfuss
Willful Ignorance quotes by Patrick Rothfuss
You are not allowed to notify me your ignorance ~ 'SON Of GOD' P.S.Jagadeesh Kumar
Willful Ignorance quotes by 'SON Of GOD' P.S.Jagadeesh Kumar
When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity even in my most seemingly fatigued moments, when I slip on ice and gyrate crazily but do not fall, when I unconsciously counter-steer my way into a sharp bicycle turn, taking advantage of physics I do not understand using a technique I am not even aware of using, when I somehow catch the dropped oranges before I know I've dropped them, when my wounds heal in my ignorance, I realize how much bigger I am than I think I am. And how much more important, nine times out of ten, those lower-level processes are to my overall well-being than the higher-level ones that tend to be the ones getting me bent out of shape or making me feel disappointed or proud. ~ Brian Christian
Willful Ignorance quotes by Brian Christian
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ~ Richard Rolle
Willful Ignorance quotes by Richard Rolle
What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance. ~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Willful Ignorance quotes by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
I feel the old dark gathering, the solitude preparing, by which I know myself, and the call of that ignorance which might be noble and is mere poltroonery. ~ Samuel Beckett
Willful Ignorance quotes by Samuel Beckett
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Willful Ignorance quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Willful Ignorance quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
This is the way to shine; to make a difference even as you choose to stand up, speak out and maintain a valid positive opinion. ~ Sunday Adelaja
Willful Ignorance quotes by Sunday Adelaja
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. ~ Ezra Pound
Willful Ignorance quotes by Ezra Pound
O MAN! Offer Thy labyrinthine longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God.
Burn desire for human affection in the fire of aspiration for GOD alone, a love solitary because omnipresent!
Throw faggot of ignorance to incandesce the blaze of insight! Devour all sorrows in the sorrow for God's absence.
Consume all regrets in meditative bliss! ~ Paramahamsa Yogananda
Willful Ignorance quotes by Paramahamsa Yogananda
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