Tom Robbins Quotes

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

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.

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

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.

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.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

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

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

I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Children and fools speak true.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.