I do not mean the innocence of childish ignorance; I mean the true innocence of an intelligent, informed, adult woman who has no evil in her.

For every disheartening expression of childish ignorance about public affairs, there are a half-dozen lucid expositions of a viewpoint or a judgment or a doubt.

"Seldom does an American girl, whatever her age, suffer from shyness or childish ignorance," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville more than a century and a half ago.

Such childish ignorance would exclaim that standing on a hill and watching the sun rise, that they had seen it before.

I loved him in childish ignorance and wish I had known him better.

An adult would have been excused had he crumbled under such pressures; Philip was able to maintain his balance solely because of his childish ignorance of possible consequences.

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy, To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

Once there I shall so advance, with the assistance I shall there get, that my present knowledge will appear to me but as childish ignorance.

"Man, you understand nothingl You are applying the logic of children in a display of childish ignorance."

The peace and self-assurance of childish ignorance, or perhaps it was enlightenment; he didn't care.