Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.