Innocence Quotes

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

... 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.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything.

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

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Ignorance is not innocence.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

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.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

all children blackmail their parents with their 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?

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

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

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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

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

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

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.

O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

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

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.