Innocence Quotes · Page 20

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

— Arthur Koestler

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

— Pierce Brosnan

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

— Anais Nin

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

— Robert Shapiro

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

— Albert Camus

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

— Steve Toltz

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

— Voltaire

We are a nation with a powerful investment in the idea of our own fundamental innocence. Our can-do optimism and ingenuity are…

— Shelby Steele

The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one can believe in Woody Allen's innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to…

— Robert B. Weide

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening…

— Emma Donoghue

I dont remember you but its hard to forget such a lovely face any how its wrong to jump out of someones'…

— Ganda Wickliffe

“But they have life and faith and hope and love and they choose those things. Their innocence is addicting, their hope is…

— Fisher Amelie

“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”

— Thomas Mann

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and…

— Donald A. Norman

For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness…

— Martin Luther

It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of…

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Brad Goreski

Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we…

— Marianne Williamson

It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the…

— Richard LaGravenese

“[THE DAILY BREATH] Underneath the body of pain, is your heart of love. Underneath the clothing of hurt, is your naked forgiveness.…

— Dragos Bratasanu

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

— Karl Shapiro

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

— Honore de Balzac

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

— Charlotte Lennox

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We stopped looking under our beds for monsters when we realized they are inside us.

— Leslie

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

— Jack Lynch

“It was easy to fool the three of us (tween boys), who were naked with innocence.”

— “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje

“Too much innocence can also refer to ignorance. Therefore, mankind is innocent.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

— Michael Pollan

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.”

— Betty Smith

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every girl's first love are full of innocence, But it is his misfortune, his lover's just wants to indulge her.

— Mak_786

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

— Anonymous

“Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.”

— Erica Goros