Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
Innocence is a simple naivety about life, due to lack of experience. As in the innocence of a child. Ignorance is a choice we make to not to learn or change from the knowledge gained through life.
Arkansas Patti And I agree with you to agree with them.
Winifred You wanna help me here? GRA? Or inonce? Or am I ignorant?
Lee Good one Lee:)
G.B. Miller I only know that I love the word bloviate and would have to plead ignorance of ever accusing you of doing such a thing:)
Brighid And therein lies the rub. Those that prey on our innocent ones.
Riot Kitty Yes.
Lynn But if the ignorant know better, then are they truly ignorant?
Snaggle Tooth I think so too.
Munir Good statement and innocent people truly don't know but are ignorant people making a choice if they are ignorant? Did ignorant people simply reach a point where they decided to stop learning and determined that they know it all? Oh yes, that was what you said in the first place wasn't it:) “Ignorance is when people don't want to know.”
Whew! Who ask this question? Oops, I did...............
Innocence is a song by the band Harlequin and ignorance is pretty much anything that comes out of Ann Coulter's mouth. Haha! I'm "in the middle of the night" funny.
I suspect that ignorance 'refuses' to learn.
ReplyDeleteI think Elephant's Child is probably right.
ReplyDeleteWell you come up with the darndest questions!
ReplyDeleteI think that we feel ignorance is willed because it should change with experience. Innocence is that lack of experience.
ReplyDeleteInnocence is a simple naivety about life, due to lack of experience. As in the innocence of a child. Ignorance is a choice we make to not to learn or change from the knowledge gained through life.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child
ReplyDeleteWhoa, what a great answer!
Pat
As you see, I agree.
Aunt Betsy
Yes and I can't answer them myself:)
Tabor
Excellent. If only we could stay innocent but alas, experience must come in order to grow so I guess ignorance must follow.
LL Cool Joe
Oh yes! Ignorance is a choice. I don't think it is a conscious one but it definitely is a choice to stop learning.
Innocense is not ever have seen. Ignorance is expeience without having learned.
ReplyDeleteExcellent question.
ReplyDeleteHard to top the other commenters -
Innocence is lack of knowledge while ignorance is a refusal to acknowledge?
Innocence is pure....ignorance is somehow tainted.
ReplyDeleteCliff
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, you can be serious. Good answer.
Marty
Well you certainly did.
Changes in the wind
Goodness gracious, I certainly have some intelligent friends. Good response.
Knowledge.
ReplyDeleteAnnie, the poem you wrote on my Fractured post...it broke my heart.
I have come too late to give a novel answer, but you did get some good responses here.
ReplyDeleteGreat question and great answers. I can top neither.
ReplyDeleteYou have some really smart commenters and I agree with all of them.
ReplyDeleteThink it's a G an R and an A!
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ReplyDeleteKnowledge is a good answer.
The poem is my condition an awful lot of the time. Sadly it is so.
Olga
Yep good responses and I know you could easily add to them.
cube
Don't need to top any just share your own wisdom:)
I don't know. I'm innocently ignorant! I don't know the answer, of that I'm guilty!
ReplyDeleteI could give you a prime example of innocence and ignorance, but this is your blog and it wouldn't be right for me to bloviate about it.
ReplyDeleteBut how 'bout this instead.
Ignorance is more prevalent among people with seriously higher education who believe that they're always right and you never are.
I don't know, but someone's ignorance may appear dang smart to an innocence someone.
ReplyDeleteI think ignorance is being in the position where you should know better, but you refuse. No?
ReplyDeleteInnocence is not knowing any better, and ignorance is knowing better, but choosing to ignore it. :)
ReplyDeleteWhen you're innocent you're not doing anything wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're ignorant, you don't know what you're doing IS wrong!
I think...
Innocence is when people genuinely don't know and ignorance is when people don't want to know?
ReplyDeleteArkansas Patti
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with you to agree with them.
Winifred
You wanna help me here? GRA? Or inonce? Or am I ignorant?
Lee
Good one Lee:)
G.B. Miller
I only know that I love the word bloviate and would have to plead ignorance of ever accusing you of doing such a thing:)
Brighid
And therein lies the rub. Those that prey on our innocent ones.
Riot Kitty
Yes.
Lynn
But if the ignorant know better, then are they truly ignorant?
Snaggle Tooth
I think so too.
Munir
Good statement and innocent people truly don't know but are ignorant people making a choice if they are ignorant? Did ignorant people simply reach a point where they decided to stop learning and determined that they know it all? Oh yes, that was what you said in the first place wasn't it:) “Ignorance is when people don't want to know.”
Whew! Who ask this question? Oops, I did...............
Innocence is a song by the band Harlequin and ignorance is pretty much anything that comes out of Ann Coulter's mouth.
ReplyDeleteHaha! I'm "in the middle of the night" funny.