Beware:Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

Octavia E. Butler
About This Quote

This quote is said when someone is talking about ignorance. Ignorance is what keeps us from learning the truth, but if we act on our fears, we act in ignorance. Ignorance can be defined as the lack of knowledge, understanding, or information. This quote can be taken to mean that if you remain ignorant of the truth, your fears will keep you from knowing what’s good for you or staying true to yourself.

Source: Parable Of The Talents

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