Best Innocence Sayings
777 Innocence quotes by 598 unique authors
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The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never…
— John Jakes
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The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.
— Unknown Author
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The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility…
— John Frankenheimer
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The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long.…
— Richard Rodriguez
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you…
— Seneca the Younger
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When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,…
— William Faulkner
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An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul…
— Toni Morrison
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It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
— Peter Porter
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
— Henry David Thoreau
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The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
— William Shakespeare
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I…
— William Saroyan
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Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.
— Frederick H. Evans
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Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
— Loren Eiseley
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The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,…
— Ruth Bernhard
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Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!
— Mary Sue Terry
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Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more,…
— Shakti Gawain
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It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth,…
— Pope Pius XI
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Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the…
— Octavio Paz
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own…
— Herman Melville
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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in…
— Russell Brand
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