Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado… — Tony Taylor Copy Share Image
I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They are funny little representatives of simplicity, of awareness. No one is more aware of themselves as these children are. They have… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
