Innocence Quotes
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.
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.
The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
