Robert Fulghum Quotes

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.

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.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

As a child, you only think of the now.

I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

I never had any thought behind anything I did in the beginning, to be honest.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.

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.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

We all know how to be a child.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.