Quotes About Innocence

I have spent my life working for the greater good and the protection of the innocent and--yes!--the wrongly accused. That group includes you, monsieur. Also, today, it includes Hercule Poirot. I too am wrongly accused.

I have always thought that if Father ever runs out of guilty people to send to the gallows, he'll turn his attentions to the innocent and pretend they're guilty--both in court and in his own mind.

Monsieur, I have not, in all my years, met a father who sought to have his son condemned to death for a murder he did not commit.

How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer.

When you're young, you don't seriously wonder whether your friends might be terrible people. You're naive and optimistic; you assume anyone occupying the structural position of best friend must be a good person deep down.

Exactly what he wanted me to do. Exactly what they all thought I would do. Everyone in here. Everyone out there in the world. A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent.

A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent.

candy was virtually unknown to the Nelson children. In later

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.

Young children, who have not yet accumulated a lot of stress, exhibit an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, profound joy, and unconditional love. These qualities that manifest spontaneously in an innocent child demonstrate the truest, unadulterated, essence of humanness. We are all born with a wellspring of love and joy. These qualities are not just emotions, they are the essence of our existence. The truth of our essence cannot change, it can only be covered over and hidden from us.

Is that too innocence, when the fountain of milk is flowing in rich abundance, not to endure one to share it, though in extremest need, and whose very life as yet depends thereon? We bear gently with all this, not as being no or slight evils, but because they will disappear as years increase; for, though tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable when found in riper years.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

Sumienie mia? czyste. Nieu?ywane.

No hay nada en el mundo que sea equiparable al secreto amor de una niña que permanece en la penumbra y tiene pocas esperanzas.

Yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey kuytulardaki bir çocuÄŸun fark edilmeyen sevgisiyle kar??laÅŸt?r?lamaz.

Hiçbir arzum yok, yeryüzünde masum kalmak d???nda.

The more naïve a people are, the easier it is to get around them.

Denn nichts auf Erden gleicht der unbemerkten Liebe eines Kindes aus dem Dunkel, weil sie so hoffnungslos, so dienend, so unterwürfig, so laurend und leidenschaftlich ist, wie niemals die begehrende und unbewußt doch fordernde Liebe einer erwachsenen Frau.

La giraffa ha il cuore lontano dai pensieri. Si è innamorata ieri, e ancora non lo sa.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

virginity certainly wasn't a

Art is childhood, after all," wrote Rilke

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.