Quotes About Willful Blindness

#1. Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling to engage with radical Islamism or whatever you want to call it - if you're not willing to call it what it is - and at the micro level, at the street level.

Pete Hegseth

#2. It has been my experience that law enforcement reports are littered with fabrications, inaccuracies, omissions, fraud, fantasies and willful blindness.

Steven Magee

#3. [The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.

Michael Warner

#4. At the heart of the human condition, we might say, is an epistemological sin - the refusal to acknowledge what can be known about God and then to respond appropriately: "Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him" (Rom. 1:21). They engage in willful blindness.

Nancy Pearcey

#5. Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#6. Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

Ann Radcliffe

#7. Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

Billy West

#8. For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...

Patrick O'Brian

#9. If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do.

Alisa Mullen

#10. Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude.

Andres Neuman

#11. Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit.

Seneca.

#12. Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

#13. The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

#14. Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

Phil Bredesen

#15. The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

Ann Coulter