Knowledge Rejection Quotes

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.