Christina Quotes

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Innocence is ignorance.

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.