willful-ignorance

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
0c5362f	Humans see what they want to see.	mankind self-delusion willful-ignorance perception humans	Rick Riordan
08951f5	The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.	willful-ignorance	Ayn Rand
fe24670	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.	lying truth willful-ignorance	Ray Bradbury
c2dc379	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.	bibliophiles book-lovers willful-ignorance zealotry	Anne Rice
36874bb	Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.	willful-ignorance	John Steinbeck
054290c	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.	understanding satisfaction willful-ignorance	Richard Dawkins
23095a8	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.	science open-mindedness willful-ignorance ignorance knowledge	Charles Darwin
a9fffd8	A man is responsible for his ignorance.	man men resonsibility willful-ignorance	Milan Kundera
51d872a	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.	responsibility deportation denunciation personal-responsibility nazis genocide civilization hitler willful-ignorance cowardice knowledge guilt evil	Iain Pears
0466227	The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see	willful-ignorance	Ayn Rand
4a82cd7	"...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.	racism hypocricy george-zimmerman trayvon-martin black-and-white black-history privilege white-privilege race-relations willful-ignorance	Tim Wise
579cc86	(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)	selective-hearing willful-ignorance	David Mitchell
bc28a8a	"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."	willful-ignorance	Isaac Asimov
04b8454	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.	willful-ignorance	James S.A. Corey

Humans see what they want to see.

mankind self-delusion willful-ignorance perception humans

Rick Riordan

08951f5

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

willful-ignorance

Ayn Rand

fe24670

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.

lying truth willful-ignorance

Ray Bradbury

c2dc379

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.

bibliophiles book-lovers willful-ignorance zealotry

Anne Rice

36874bb

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

willful-ignorance

John Steinbeck

054290c

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.

understanding satisfaction willful-ignorance

Richard Dawkins

23095a8

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.

science open-mindedness willful-ignorance ignorance knowledge

Charles Darwin

a9fffd8

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

man men resonsibility willful-ignorance

Milan Kundera

51d872a

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.

responsibility deportation denunciation personal-responsibility nazis genocide civilization hitler willful-ignorance cowardice knowledge guilt evil

Iain Pears

0466227

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see

willful-ignorance

Ayn Rand

4a82cd7

"...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.

racism hypocricy george-zimmerman trayvon-martin black-and-white black-history privilege white-privilege race-relations willful-ignorance

Tim Wise

579cc86

(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)

selective-hearing willful-ignorance

David Mitchell

bc28a8a

"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."

willful-ignorance

Isaac Asimov

04b8454

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.

willful-ignorance

James S.A. Corey