Innocence Quote by Robertson Davies Download Open image “One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.” — Robertson Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innocence Learning Mystery
“We need mystery,” she said. “Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility,… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied purity. To… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Innocence is lost, where innocence is found, at birth. from The Physics of Madness” — PSM Copy Share Image
“Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! The path of mystery gives you much… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“He'd learned pretty early that the illusioned virtuous creatures were no more than that— illusions. Innocence was a community that was used up and… — Camille Oster Copy Share Image
“The noblest thing a human being can experience is acceptance of the mystery” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“Those who try to grasp on to the mystery will never succeed. Only those who let it slip their fingers will come to know… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies 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
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov 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
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