Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so…

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and…

— Alan Menken

“Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“Thus pride wears the mask of loftiness of spirit, although You alone, O God, are high over all. Ambition seeks honour and glory, although…

— Augustine of Hippo

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called…

— William Golding

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but…

— Anonymous

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect…

— James T. Walsh

“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and is an…

— Brad Goreski

“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the…

— Erik Pevernagie

It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for…

— Anonymous

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of…

— Jean Houston

It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

— Harold McGee

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have…

— Milan Kundera