Adam Conover Quotes

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

People never notice anything.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

The South has eyes but does not see, and ears but does not hear.

Contemporary Americans were so prosperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

you have not been / paying attention

We usually don't look. We overlook.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.