Innocence Quotes

777 Innocence quotes by 598 unique authors

Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life,… — Aberjhani
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. — James A. Baldwin
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.… — Anthony de Mello
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than… — Milan Kundera
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. — Maria Montessori
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but… — Elizabeth Bowen
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. — Daniel Defoe
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A. E. Housman
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. — Louis Kronenberger
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. — Mary Astor
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant
An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards,… — Byron Katie
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter… — Wilfred Trotter
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we… — Salman Rushdie
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. — Chuck Palahniuk
For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your… — Martin Luther
To start with, you should have an attitude of gratitude. Without an attitude of gratitude, neither prosperity nor pleasure, joy nor happiness means anything, and… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome… — Rajneesh
Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of… — Rajneesh
A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation. — Rajneesh
A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his… — Rajneesh
It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. — Sean Penn

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