If the United States of America is going to slide into the historical dust bin containing previous empires, it will happen because of the willful ignorance of so many of its citizens and the cowardice of so many of its timorous leaders.
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard
“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.”
― Hendrick Willem Van Loon
“If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.”
― Paul Murray
“Willful ignorance is blissful only in the mind of a remarkable fool.”
― Tracey Bond
“So many it seems, have made it their life's goal to bask in the ignorance of their certainty.”
― John Chaplin
“There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.” Elizabeth Moon
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