Innocence Quotes - Page 4

• It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

  Thomas Traherne

  Sweet, Children, Paradise

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.151, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Long, Evil

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798) #31)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

  Abraham Maslow

  Honesty, Generosity, Common Sense

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• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Discovery, Irritated, Ought

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.28, VM eBooks

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• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Literature, World

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Would Be, Literature

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

  May Sarton

  Self, Pure

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

  Robert South

  Armor, Children Innocence, Polished

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.43

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• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  Barney Frank

  Presumption Of Innocence, People, Entitled

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• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  A. E. Housman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Air

  "Voices: A Memoir". Book by Frederic Prokosch, 1983.

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• Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Ashamed

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

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• The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Jurisprudence, Failing

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.282

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• Every harlot was a virgin once.

  William Blake

  Artist, Harlots, Virgins

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'To the Accuser who is The God of This World' [epilogue]

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• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Men, Awake At Night

  Nature ch. 8 (1836).

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• Mystery and innocence are not akin.

  Hosea Ballou

  Mystery

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• The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

  John Updike

  Self, Essentials, Literature

  1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.

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• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

  Mason Cooley

  Greed, Lust, Literature

  "City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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• The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Regret, Responsibility, Light

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• I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

  Dylan Thomas

  Real, Dirty, Optimistic

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• 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.

  Adam Smith

  Nature, Hate, Justice

  Adam Smith (1948). “Adam Smith's moral and political philosophy”

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• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

  Elizabeth I

  Innocent, Fear Nothing, Clear

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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Achievement, Feelings

  Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

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• He's arm'd without that's innocent within;
  Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

  Horace

  Wall, Literature, Innocent

  "Imitations of Horace: With An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires".

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