Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge, not at all; it has something to do with innocence. Something of the purity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was never entirely sure what financial services meant. It seemed to cover a spectrum from innocent to guilty and then extremely… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“It is common to say Watergate shattered American innocence, that Vietnam shattered American innocence, that September 11 shattered American innocence, that Trump… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning.… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
With Bill Clinton, his lawyers always wanted him to say nothing about the Lewinsky scandal. Defendant Clinton had the right to remain… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever… — Ant McPartlin Copy Share Image
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier… — Paula Reed Copy Share Image
“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In my work, I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“In the depth of cold, warm magnetizing feelings, Listen to the sound of love in a happening hug, In deep connection of… — Abhinav Rajput Copy Share Image
“But, it never dawned on me how wrong it was that I tied her innocence to the fact that she was with… — Cassie Dandridge Selleck Copy Share Image
“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
