Eye Quote by Joseph Addison

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. [...] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues goodness. It…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

— Anthony Trollope

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

— Immanuel Kant

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

— Anonymous

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

— Anatole France

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be…

— William Godwin

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by…

— Samuel Johnson

“Innocence is a double edged sword - Nothing else can make the world more wonderous or deadly.”

— Rich Jones

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

— Dorothy Parker