Innocence Quotes - Page 31

• 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.

  John Adams

  Spring, Pride, President

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.108

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• It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

  John Adams

  Community, Guilt, Should

  John Adams (1965). “Legal Papers of John Adams”

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• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Men, Evil

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• Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought.

  Katie Davis

  Dream, Attachment, Essence

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• Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Water, Mixtures

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Routledge

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• Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!

  Edward Young

  Beautiful, Sweet, Gay

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 3' l. 81

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• Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Venice, Atmosphere

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Black Gondolier: And Other Stories”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Trying

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Reality, Collide, Hard

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

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• A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sweet, Kissing, Men

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• Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

  Graham Greene

  Voice, Towers, Cry

  Graham Greene (2010). “The Quiet American”, p.110, Random House

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• The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century

  Caroline Alexander

  Believe, Passion, Discovery

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• My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Helping, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Photography, Revenge, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Childhood, Your Children

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• If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, People, Passionate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Sorry, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.228

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• To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Guilt, Accused

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• Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Miracle, Magic

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• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicide, Children, Home

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• I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Sex, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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• I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Law, Presumption Of Innocence

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• I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Age, Way, Mature

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• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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