Willful Blindness Quotes

The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.

Faith: not wanting to know 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.

Islam, the religion of peace and any terrorism that happens, is not really Islamic or Islamic inspired. This is called a willful blindness. It's also political correctness.

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

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

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.

When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

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

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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.

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