Knowledge Avoidance Quotes

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

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

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

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.

Politicians: Some are ignorant; some are not ignorant, but those who are ignorant don't want to know. The psychologists call it denial.

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.

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.