Innocence Quotes
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
Abraham Maslow
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
William Penn
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.
Leonard F. Peltier
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
Honore de Balzac
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 Baldwin
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene
