Innocence Quote by John Shirley Download Open image “Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.” — John Shirley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innocence Mind Psychology State of mind States
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 of a… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.” — William maxwell Copy Share Image
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“Almost anyone could be Fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. It's because, you see, most people live their lives like… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and is an… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called… — William Golding Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
