Innocence Quotes - Page 15

• Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Tremendous Trifles "The Twelve Men" (1909)

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• How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Offending, Defense

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.849, Xist Publishing

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• Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

  Publilius Syrus

  Next, Faults, Confession

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 1060,

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• When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

  Publilius Syrus

  Judging, Injustice

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• The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Beast, Function

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.91, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Science, Profound

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 49, 1799.

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• Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ridiculous, Behavior, Dainty

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.25, Penguin

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• I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Tragedy, Might

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.224, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Technology, Media, Sappers

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

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• Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

  Bai Ling

  Dream, Believe, Like You

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

  Peter Slipper

  Believe, Presumption Of Innocence, Persons

  "Oppn launches twin attempts to interrupt Parliament". "AM " with Naomi Woodley, www.abc.net.au. May 8, 2012.

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• Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Evil, Design, Doe

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• In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

  Frederick Lenz

  Evil, Good And Evil

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

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• Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Want

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• Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Healthy Choices, Life Choices, Aspects Of Life

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

  Hozier

  Sin, Gentle

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• God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

  Oswald Chambers

  Character, Choices, Doe

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.449, Discovery House

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• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  Abba Kovner

  Experience, World, Want

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• O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Punishment

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen (2017). “Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula”, p.622, Open Road Media

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• There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

  Horace

  Calumny Is, Calumny, Loses

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• Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfuming. To own dear native scenes Let us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither.

  Robert Tannahill

  Summer, Flower, Journey

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Children, Native American, Parent

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• The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

  Walt Disney

  Might, Buried, Worst

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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