Willful-ignorance Quotes

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

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

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

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attrac...

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the...

A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his hear...

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afr...

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened...

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith...

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it ...

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in ...

There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th...

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and...