Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.