Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
There is no sin except stupidity.
There is no sin but ignorance.