Innocence Quotes · Page 12

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

— Frederick Lenz

“Our innocence can never be contaminated. A pure heart exists within everyone of us ...somewhere.”

— Adele Green

“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.”

— Charles Baxter

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

— Loren Eiseley

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

— William Blake

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

— Anil Kapoor

“No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.”

— Tiffany Madison

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

— Helene Cixous

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our…

— Dan Abrams

When I was young, in my early films, the freshness, and the raw element in my presence on-screen was coming from my…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

“We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the…

— Wilkie Collins

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

— William Saroyan

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us…

— Michael Jackson

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is…

— Maimouna Doucoure

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and…

— Christine Jennings

What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was…

— Graham Greene

When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When…

— Nicole Miller

Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

— Erik Pevernagie

'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is…

— Orhan Pamuk

You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

— Marianne Moore

“Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?”

— Claire North

“I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift”

— john j geddes

There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.

— Johnny Depp

My innocence is not ignorance My past does not define me My calm hides a storm My kindness is not weakness

— Hiro Mashima

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

— Sylvia Kristel

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot

— Anonymous

“We speak of love when we destroy nature. It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.”

— Toba Beta

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

— A. E. Housman

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Phyllis Bottome

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Lawrence Fagg

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

— Anonymous

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

— Byron Katie

“She was stolen innocence, following the rules of monsters. Somewhere along the way, she’d become one.”

— Pam Godwin