Unawareness of Danger Quotes

Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.