Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Innocence is ignorance.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

If you know everything, it's the end, no?

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

We usually don't look. We overlook.