Innocence Quotes - Page 2

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

All happiness is a form of innocence.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Ignorance is not innocence.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.