Innocence Quotes - Page 8

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.