608 Quotes About Innocence

Can we ever hope for a Natural History with colored plates that will show us how the world appears to the faceted eyes of a dragon-fly?

Случайно на ноже карманномнайди пылинку дальних стран -и мир опять предстанет странным,закутанным в цветной туман!

The child in us remains. It lives in our weaknesses. It lives in our trust. It lives in our desire to hold another’s hand. It lives in our devotion to something more than ourselves.

Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.

The horror of immolating another wakes up the child, the dreaming angel, the slumbering god, and casts him into the hell that most men call their lives. Only a poet is forever a child.

Innocence, that mild form of mental deficiency, has the same aphrodisiac effect as softness of skin.

Yet, as a sympathetic biographer, shall I suggest, this outspoken young woman is not so innocent as she imagines herself?

An hour of innocence builds more trust than years of diplomacy.

Consider yourselves innocent.Easier said than done.