Quotes About Innocence

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

A bunny rabbit and a chick went frolicking in the grass together on a sunny day." "A chick . . . baby chicken?" Kaladin said. "And a what?" "Ah, forgot myself for a moment," Wit said. "Sorry. Let me make it more appropriate for you. A piece of wet slime and a disgusting crab thing with seventeen legs slunk across the rocks together on an insufferably rainy day. Is that better?

A child's instincts are often the most honest.

Our laws will claim innocent men—for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.

I bet the first time you had emotions, you babbled a lot and soiled your clothing.

Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze

And don't you give me that innocent look. These are the Forests. Everybody here has done something, now and then, that you don't want others to know about....

Breehn Burns

Writer Mary Jo Putney says, "What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

For the disciple of Jesus, being like a child means accepting oneself as being of little account, unimportant.

It is easy to forgive the innocent. It is the guilty who test our morality. People are more than the worst thing they have ever done.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

El dodo no sabía lo que era un enemigo. Y por eso, lógicamente, lo consideraron tonto.

At that age, they're as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.

Becoming a child is living toward a second innocence: not the innocence of the newborn infant, but the innocence that is reached through conscious choices.

Jesus makes it clear that the way to God is the same as the way to a new childhood. The innocence that is reached through conscious choices. The Beatitudes offer me the simplest route for the journey home, back into the house of my Father. And along this route I will discover the joys of the second childhood: comfort, mercy, and an ever clearer vision of God. It's a place where I can live in freedom without obsessions and compulsions.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.