Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

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

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

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 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 is the person who explains nothing

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

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

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

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

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.