Deliberate Ignorance Quotes

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

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

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

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

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

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

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

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

I love a blouse that's dumb. I love to use the word 'dumb.' It's not knowing, and the word 'blouse' is so out of fashion that I love it - 'a blouse that's dumb.'