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#1

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#2

“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.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, 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

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: willful-ignorance

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#5

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance

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#6

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

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#7

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: thinking, willful-ignorance

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#8

“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, The Witching Hour

tags: aliteracy, bibliophiles, book-lovers, willful-ignorance, zealotry

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#9

“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: satisfaction, understanding

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#10

“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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#11

“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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#12

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: religion, science, willful-ignorance

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#13

“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

tags: religion, willful-ignorance

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#14

“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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#15

“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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#16

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

tags: society-s-increasing-stupidity, willful-ignorance

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#17

“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
― James A. Michener

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#18

“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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#19

“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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#20

“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

tags: change, innovation, willful-ignorance

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#21

“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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#22

“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: bigotry, elitism, small-mindedness, willful-ignorance

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#23

“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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#24

“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

“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, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living

tags: fear, ignorance, 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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#28

“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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#29

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”
― Larken Rose

tags: abuse, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, democracy, elections, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, religion, slavery, sophism, statism, stockholm-syndrome, superstition, taxation, violence, voluntaryism, voting

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#30

“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers.
I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders.
I don't care if there's one looney with a stupid moustache. He's not a threat if the people do not believe in "authority".”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchy, ancap, delusion, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, statism, superstition, voluntaryism

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#31

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism, voluntaryist

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