Innocence Quotes

• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

  Lyman Abbott

  Life, Temptation, Vices

  Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

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• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Time, Enemy

  The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

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• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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  The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

  Jim Henson

  Inspirational, Children, People

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.52, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Aphrodisiac

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.185, Verso

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• Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

  Mary Astor

  Asking Questions, Gone, Asking

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Freedom, Real

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• 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.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Giving, Return, Purity

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• Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Pleasure, Enjoyment

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

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• Innocence is always unsuspicious.

  Joseph Joubert

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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Depression, Art, Healing

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Teens

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• 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.

  John Milton

  Trials, World, Fugitive

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Risk, Guilt, Taught

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855). “The Rag-bag: A Collection of Ephemera”, p.263

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• It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

  Daryl Hannah

  Firsts, Villain, Likeable

  "Daryl Hannah Talks Kill Bill" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 8, 2003.

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• The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Islands, Judging

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.86

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• The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

  Josh Billings

  Thinking, Innocent

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

  Donna Tartt

  Children, Thinking, Adults

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

  Samuel Butler

  Justice, Sometimes, Crime

  Samuel Butler (1806). “Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars”, p.248

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• Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

  Agatha Christie

  Justice, Needs, Too Much

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Literature, Path

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