Willful ignorance

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The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Agar, Herbert. A Time for Greatness. Little, Brown and Company, 1942.

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None so blind as those that will not see.

Matthew Henry

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Henry, Matthew. Matthew Henry's Commentary. c. 1706, Jeremiah 20.

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Henry, Matthew. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible. Thomas Nelson, 2003, Jeremiah 20.

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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Jonathan Swift

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Swift, Johnathan. "Dialogue III." Polite Conversation. London: Charles Wittinham & Co., 1738.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Polite Conversation." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013, no. 3.

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

St. Jerome

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Paulinus. c. 394.

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Saint Jerome. The Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2016.

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