Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

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.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

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.

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'.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

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

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

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

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.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing