Innocence Quotes - Page 6

• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

  James A. Baldwin

  Eye, Reality, People

  "Stranger in the Village". Essay by James A. Baldwin, first published in Harper's Magazine (1953), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), and later quoted in "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.

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• Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poor, Substitutes, Alas

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• What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

  Philip Massinger

  Judging

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1848). “The dramatic works of Massinger and Ford”, p.210

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• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Christian, Sin, Corruption

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

  William Davenant

  Law, Knows

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  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

  Albert Camus

  Essence, Nostalgia, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.105, Vintage

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• The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

  Irving Howe

  Unattainable, Cherish

  Irving Howe (1975). “The critical point, on literature and culture”

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• There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

  Immanuel Kant

  Splendid, Protect, Turns

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Soul, Guilt

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.305, Macmillan

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• Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Rain, World, Nuance

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• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Wicked, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Eden, Picnics

  'Out of a Book' in 'Orion III' (ed. Rosamund Lehmann et al, 1946)

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• Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

  Carolyn Hart

  Heart, Loss, Childhood

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• A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Growing Up, Cities

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• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

  Ruth Benedict

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

  Edward Coke

  Coke, Guilty, Innocent

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• Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

  Jose Bergamin

  Ignorance, Forgotten

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• There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Might, Admiration, Found

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

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• Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

  William Golding

  Wise, Fall, Heart

  Lord of the Flies ch. 12 (1954)

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Children, Wisdom Experience

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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  Ouida

  Vices, Kind, Chicanery

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.149, Ouida

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• Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Wise, Ideas, Giving

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• In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

  Lawren Harris

  Children, Artist, Pure

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• If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

  Luis Bunuel

  Destiny, Curiosity, Fundamentals

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

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