Innocence Quotes - Page 17

• Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Thrive, Improbable

  "Island".

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• Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

  Molly Crabapple

  World, Sometimes, States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Selfless, Innocent

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• First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

  Milos Forman

  Stupid, Believe, Silly

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• In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Mindfulness, Moments

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• Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Names, Personality

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• Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Moving, Knowledge

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• O' beautiful for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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• Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Ignorance, Character

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• The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Two, Tragedy

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.78, Indiana University Press

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• It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

  Anderson Cooper

  Justice, Guilt, Clients

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• Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Ignorance, Stupidity

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• Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Sea, Literature

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

  Arthur Koestler

  Art, Creative, Perception

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe".

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• I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Men, Elderly

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• Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

  Michael Sandel

  Self, Lost, Self Knowledge

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• Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Combination, Insolence, Adolescence

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1994). “The Summer House: A Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

  Harry Mulisch

  Mother, Children, War

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

  George Carlin

  Airports, Goofy, Kind

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

  Paul Fussell

  Fuel, Irony

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

  Agnes Martin

  Thinking, Tree, Mind

  "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015.

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• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  Richard Jewell

  Men, Innocent Man, Names

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• The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, May, Might

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite".

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• Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Joy, Wonder

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• ...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

  Minor White

  Children, Mean, Eye

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