{"quotes":[{"text":"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["lies","lying","truth","willful-ignorance"],"id":6567,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ","author":"Plato","tags":["darkness","dishonesty","fear","light","willful-ignorance"],"id":7475,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["certainty","ignorance","knowledge","open-mindedness","science","willful-ignorance"],"id":45465,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.","author":"Richard Dawkins","tags":["religion","willful-ignorance"],"id":57315,"author_id":"Richard+Dawkins"},{"text":"...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.","author":"Tim Wise","tags":["american-culture","black-and-white","black-history","george-zimmerman","hypocricy","privilege","race-relations","racism","trayvon-martin","white-privilege","willful-ignorance"],"id":65099,"author_id":"Tim+Wise"},{"text":"There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["curiosity","willful-ignorance"],"id":77311,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"},{"text":"A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or LeMay or other that crops up. These people would not be able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity...And therefore I think that it's, in some sense, the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who share a very serious burden of guilt that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and violent.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["ignorance","noam-chomsky","political-commentary","war","willful-ignorance"],"id":79814,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["blind","blind-faith","blindness","democrats","followers","following","following-the-crowd","government","government","party-loyalty","party-politics","political-parties","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","republicans","truth","truth","willful-blindness","willful-ignorance"],"id":127532,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming.","author":"John Wray","tags":["history","ignorance","war","willful-ignorance"],"id":146645,"author_id":"John+Wray"},{"text":"Humans see what they want to see.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["humanity","humans","mankind","perception","self-delusion","willful-ignorance"],"id":156228,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}