Innocence Quotes

Innocence Quotes & Sayings

These innocence quotes and innocence sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Ah, where have gone all my goodness and all my shame and all my belief in the good! Ah, where is the lying innocence which I once possessed, the innocence of the good and of their noble lies! (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours. - Henry David Thoreau


Mystery and innocence are not akin. - Hosea Ballou


Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. - Loren Eiseley


Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. - John Milton


Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Ignorance is not innocence but sin. - Robert Browning


People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. - James Arthur Baldwin


Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. - Nadine Gordimer