Innocence Quotations | Page 3

All happiness is a form of innocence.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

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

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

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

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

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

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.

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

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

The Innocence Project is thrilled to be the beneficiary of the band's generosity. The wave of post conviction DNA exonerations sends a message to all of us that the criminal justice system is broken and desperately needs to be fixed. Thank you Nine Inch Nails for joining us in the quest for meaningful justice.

The compressed merger of high school innocence with life's uncertainties during that turbulent weekend has forever linked our small play cast with an historical moment in time.

See the world with the innocence of children. Approach the world with the daring of children. Love the world with the readiness of children. Heal the world with the purity of children. Change the world with the wisdom of children.

For instance, the music from Yes To The Riverhappened during the period when Osho moved the discourses from Chuang Tzu Auditorium to the newly-constructed Buddha Hall. Although the album features recordings from both venues, the overall feeling reflects a freshness, an innocence, that was prevalent in the Commune at this time. I think it comes across in the music. It's something very tangible.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

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

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.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

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

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

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.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

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

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

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

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.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

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

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.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

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

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

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

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

My innocence is a dying flower

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.

You're innocent when you dream.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

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

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.

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.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

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

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.

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap....

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Begin building the future through "conversation for possibility."

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

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

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

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

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

Innocence is its own defense.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

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

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.

For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth

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