57 Quotes About Willful-ignorance

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.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

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.

(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)

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.