57 Quotes About Willful-ignorance

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.

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.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

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.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Humans see what they want to see.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

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.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.