Willful ignorance is the act of intentionally choosing to ignore or remain uninformed about something, typically to avoid facing uncomfortable truths or realities. It involves a deliberate decision not to seek out knowledge or information that may challenge one's existing beliefs or perspectives.
This quote emphasizes that while ignorance is natural at birth, staying stupid requires active effort. It suggests that it is through continuous learning and striving for knowledge that one can avoid remaining ignorant. It serves as a reminder to remain curious and open-minded in order to prevent stagnation and willful ignorance.
No, knowledge is not the key to ignorance. Knowledge is the opposite of ignorance as it involves awareness, understanding, and familiarity with information or facts. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge or understanding about a particular topic.
Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information about a particular subject. So, in that sense, ignorance can be seen as the opposite of knowledge.
Ignorance refers to a lack of knowledge, understanding, or awareness about something. It can lead to misunderstandings, misinformation, and biases. Overcoming ignorance requires seeking out information, being open-minded, and being willing to learn and grow.
Some synonyms for the verb shrugged are:gestured ignorance or disdainsigned ignorance or disdainindicated ignorance or disdaindisregardedminimized
The jury found the defendant guilty of willful murder.
Willful means to purposely do something. A good sentence would be, he caused willful injury to the other boy when he hit him with the bat.
John's parents were dismayed at his willful misconduct. Julie's actions were willful and disregarding other people's feelings.
Ecocide is a neologism for the willful destruction of the environment.
Willful Murder was created on 1981-11-07.
The judges concluded that he had committed the willful murder of the innocent girl.
There is not specific collective noun for the noun ignorance. The noun ignorance is an uncountable noun; quantities of ignorance are expressed in degrees, for example, some ignorance, much ignorance, total ignorance, etc. A term that expresses ignorance as a collective would be, 'the collective ignorance of a group' or 'the combined ignorance of a group'.
That is called racism. A person usually has racist beliefs because they have something missing within their own self esteem. Sometimes racist beliefs are the result of ignorance or willful ignorance with a personal motive to promote these beliefs. Because racism is unsupported by reality, a reasonable person doesn't hold such beliefs.
Willful= means to do it and the person has no defense to prove otherwise (i.e abnormality of mind or insanity or accident) Unlawful= the willful act is in breach (breaks) a law Source: I studied crim at uni
Because earth has water, an oxygen atmosphere, and an interactive ecosystem, and is therefore capable of sustaining life as we know it, if we humans don't destroy it all due to the willful ignorance of people like Texas governor and US presidential candidate Rick Perry.
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