Innocence Quotes · Page 15

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

— David Bentley Hart

Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

— A. J. McLean

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

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

— Bruce Springsteen

“Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.”

— Christopher Fry

Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.

— Aldous Huxley

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

— Pamela Meyer

Ariana has completed me. I felt I'd lived all my high points, till the baby came and life's been on a high…

— Mahima Chaudhry

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes…

— Benjamin Disraeli

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

— Virginia Woolf

Flirt with your IDEAS, have a Fling with INNOCENCE, Romance your DREAMS, get Engaged to SIMPLICITY, Marry HAPPINESS, Divorce your EGO, and…

— Anonymous

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls…

— Mark Helprin

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of…

— Giorgio de Chirico

The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that…

— Rene Girard

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent…

— John Adams

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry,…

— Tom Brokaw

The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in…

— Felix Frankfurter

“Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats,…

— Philip Larkin

“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and…

— Barack Obama

No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and…

— Gertrude Stein

I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them…

— Charlotte Bingham

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she…

— LeCrae

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

— Jackie Jackson

Hello Innocence. Though it seems like we've been friends for years.

— Jamie Cullum

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

— Josh Billings

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“He was the picture of innocence and a masterpiece of temptation.”

— Wendy Beck

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

— Mahira Khan

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

— River Phoenix

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

— Roger Scruton

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

— Franz Grillparzer

“The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.”

— Kurt Chambers

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

— Jim Henson

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

— Ellen Hopkins

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

— Gaston Leroux

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

— Antonin Scalia