Johnny Depp Quotes

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

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.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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

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

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

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

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.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

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

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

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.

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.