Deliberate Blindness Quotes

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

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.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

None so blind as those who will not see.

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

Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.