Quotes About Ignorance And Innocence

#1. The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

Criss Jami

#2. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?

Anonymous

#3. So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

Kristen Heitzmann

#4. The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

Lisette Model

#5. Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Amos Bronson Alcott

#6. Innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance ...

William Blake

#8. Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Jose Bergamin

#9. It takes a very long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

#10. The locust continues
to devour the world
Hunger persists
Love lurches on
listing to starboard
like a ship in a bottle
Human longing goes on
Loneliness a curse
Innocence persists
Ignorance persists

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#11. Innocence is beauty.
ignorance is death. -Kuroshitsuji

Yana Toboso

#12. Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

#13. And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Herman Melville

#14. Innocence doesn't matter when ignorance is what people prefer.

Pepper Winters

#15. Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence ... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.

Augustine Of Hippo

#16. Nobody is going to be muddle-headed enough to confuse ignorance with innocence now - it's too important. Nor is ignorance going to be cute or funny anymore. It is going to be dangerous, very dangerous.

John Wyndham

#17. The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

John Lancaster Spalding

#18. The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Tim Wise

#19. If all your questions can be taken away, your ignorance is bound to disappear, and what remains is innocence. And innocence is a light unto itself.

Osho

#20. My first life, for all it lacked any real direction, had about it a kind of happiness, if ignorance is innocence, and loneliness is a separation of care.

Claire North

#21. Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination.

Kimberly Sabatini

#22. Forgiveness is not born out of innocence or ignorance. Forgiveness is born of love.

Rick Yancey

#23. Innocence is ignorance.

Lynne Reid Banks

#24. Innocence is ignorance; ignorance is illusion; and Commencement, while it certainly is a metaphor, is no illusion. Commencement's for the disillusioned, not for the innocent.

John Barth

#25. Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#26. The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.

Diane Medved

#27. The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions.

Tim Weiner

#28. Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

Lisa Cach

#29. Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

Claire North

#30. I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Franz Kafka

#31. Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.

Wes Fesler

#32. People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it's something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don't change people: it's understanding how the facts feel that does.

Alexia Casale

#33. It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

#34. But, it never dawned on me how wrong it was that I tied her innocence to the fact that she was with me, not who she was, and I am humbled by my ignorance.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#35. In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It

George MacDonald Fraser

#36. It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.

Victor Hugo

#37. There's no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there's only ignorance. You think you are holding on to something pure, but you aren't. You're just ignorant. You are handicapped by everything you don't yet know.

Eleanor Catton

#38. Innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates.

Jo Nesbo

#39. Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing
by dint of ignorance and innocence
that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

Gregory Maguire