Quotes about Willful ignorance

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More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it i — Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin
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 I — Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse thi — Frank Zappa
A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with whi — Noam Chomsky
Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; ju — Mike Klepper
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we — Tim Wise
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the — Tim Wise
...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most person — Tim Wise
There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’ — Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.”“No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until a — Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's mi — Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will b — Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics