Innocence Quotes - Page 40

• The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Age, Reason

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

  Isabel Allende

  Dream, Children, People

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Thinking, Simple, Mind

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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• Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

  Dante Alighieri

  Strong, Men, Boon

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• If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

  Pauline Kael

  Corruption, Ifs

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• We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Hero

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Artist, Creative, Way

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• Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beautiful, Children, Sleep

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• The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

  Jane Porter

  Apples, Fruition, Sticks

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• All happiness is a form of innocence.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Happiness, Form

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Believe, Failure, Thinking

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• Credulity is the sister of innocence.

  Fanny Burney

  Gullibility, Credulity

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• Sweet the young muse with love intense,
  Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

  Christopher Smart

  Sweet, Sleep, Muse

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• Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

  Abraham Coles

  Poetry, Needs, Answers

  Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

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• There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

  Thomas Southerne

  Courage, Causes, Honest

  Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.301

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• O blissful poverty!
  Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
  Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
  Her real goods; and only mocks the great,
  With empty pageantries!

  Elijah Fenton

  Real, Pageantry, Poverty

  Edmund Smith, Mr. John Dryden, Mr. Elijah Fenton, Richard Steele (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. VI.”, p.61

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• Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.

  Owen Feltham

  Fall, Men, Abuse

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• We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Eden, Victory, Example

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• Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Temptation, Armor, Obscurity

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• Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

  Moliere

  Accustomed

  "Don Garcie de Navarre". II. 5, 1661.

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• The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mind, Scandal

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• No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

  Henry Fielding

  Loss, Evil, Anxiety

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Crime, Extremes, Great Ones

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• Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

  Octavio Paz

  School, Order, Way

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.50, Arcade Publishing

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• On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

  Raymond Williams

  Country, Powerful, Communication

  Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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