John Banner Quotes

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.