Innocence Quotes - Page 9

• Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Eye, Men

  "Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe".

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• Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Children, Clever

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• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

  William C. Bryant

  Roots, Fruit, Virtue

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

  Byron Katie

  Honesty, Writing, Uncomfortable Feeling

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• It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Science, Thinking

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• ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Animal, Humanity, Lambs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Marta L. Werner (2005). “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843”, p.7, American Philosophical Society

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• We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Choices, Guilty, Innocent

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?

  Salman Rushdie

  Issues, Blood, World Religions

  "Religion, as ever, is the poison in India's blood" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2002.

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• For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

  Martin Luther

  Baptism, Purpose, Sin

  Martin Luther, Eugene F. A. Klug (1996). “Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils”, Baker Publishing Group

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• To start with, you should have an attitude of gratitude. Without an attitude of gratitude, neither prosperity nor pleasure, joy nor happiness means anything, and it works this way: to those who have an attitude of gratitude and who do it with innocence, Mother Nature brings all the wealth, health, and happiness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Mother, Gratitude, Attitude

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• How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome of a certain dream. If you don`t want frustrations, drop dreaming. Life is not frustrating, dreaming is frustrating.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Frustration, Doe

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• Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

  Rajneesh

  Childhood, Individuality, Originality

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• A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Creativity, Meditation

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• It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

  Sean Penn

  Magic, Kind

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• The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

  John Jakes

  Children, Pain, Sunset

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Dec 22, 2014

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• The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.

  Edward Graham Paley

  Cat, Lasts

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• To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Escaping

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

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• The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.

  John Frankenheimer

  Humble, Humility, Practice

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• When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

  Tim Freeman

  Gun, Collecting Things, Drug

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• If you want, then start to laugh,
  If you must, then start to cry,
  Be yourself don't hide
  Just believe in destiny.
  Don't care what people say
  Just follow your own way
  Don't give up and use the chance
  To return to innocence.

  Michael Cretu

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Integrity

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• The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Honesty, Integrity, Mean

  1990 Frontiers,'Night and Day'.

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• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Loss, Animal

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• When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...

  William Faulkner

  Children, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Reivers". Book by William Faulkner, 1962.

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• An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

  Toni Morrison

  Fall, Angel, Godly

  "Tar Baby". Book by Toni Morrison, 1981.

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• It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

  Peter Porter

  Sports, Proud, Thoroughbreds

  Peter Porter (1961). “Once bitten, twice bitten: poems”

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