Innocence Quotes - Page 7

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

This innocence begins to weigh me down.

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

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

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

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

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

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.