Selective Ignorance Quotes

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.

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

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I'm really not aware of much press. I could drive myself mental if I went on the internet. I'd probably overanalyse it anyway. There's so much media that I'd feel bombarded, so I don't pay it much attention.

I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know. And then you just roll with it.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.