Quotes About Innocence

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.

It's almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!

Fair and unfair are for children

We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exercise power. For those upon whom that power is exercised, naiveté is always a mistake.

Bring back your innocence and be a child once more, spring back in life. Dance in the rains, prance in your pains, wonder at the stars and romance the skies & get in tune with natural rhythms & get naturalized. Grow and know in the lap of mother nature and be MickeyMized.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

Los niños lo comprenden todo; más que nosotros. Y no olvidan nada. Y si ahora no lo comprenden, lo comprenderán mañana.

Pero existen, flotando constantemente en el aire unos entes diabólicos que gozan enredando los actos inocentes de los niños, complicándoles las situaciones más normales y simples.

Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one. While we might admire the serenity of the lion in repose, the tribesman's untroubled acceptance of his fate, or the child's wholehearted involvement in the present, they cannot offer a model for resolving our predicament. The order based on innocence is now beyond our grasp. Once the fruit is plucked from the tree of knowledge, the way back to Eden is barred forever.

No hay ciertamente nadie, por pobre que sea, cuya infancia no encierre algún destello de júbilo y de luz al evocarla en sus viejos días

We interpret the actions of others as malicious when they might be totally innocent. And how we interpret their actions is what upsets us.

After 'cat', Lilah next learned 'flower'. Flowers (scrunch up nose as if sniffing) were everywhere, first only outside on plants, but soon she generalized to flowers on her clothes or her shoes, or in pictures in books and magazines. I wanted to hook up wires and do experiments and comparisons and studies to understand it all. 'You want to do what?' Diane would say. But really, who wouldn't?

The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection.

I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.

The soul is healed by being with children. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, AUTHOR

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals.

babies did nothing wrong." "I agree. They did nothing wrong." He looked at her thoughtfully. "But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe in such cruel ideals.

At the age of six, the criteria for handsome was simply: "Is he not related to me?" and "Have I seen him on television?" That was it. By this standard, Larry Bird, Dick Clark, and Andy Rooney. All handsome guys.