Innocence Quotes

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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.

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

You're innocent when you dream.

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.