83+ Best Innocence Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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Famous Innocence Quotes

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young. Osho Rajneesh

It was one of the great livery stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. Henry Ward Beecher

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso

You like to be alone? Yes; as long as my friends keep me from feeling lonely. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

We need to remain childlike. Children don’t dream of being insignificant. Bill Johnson

We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we? Why not why not why not? Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore

It would take an omniscient Deity to know what you’re talking about. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

The silence often of pure innocence persuades me when speaking fails. William Shakespeare

The individual, in such cases, is nearly always sacrificed to what is supposed to be the collective interest: people cling to any convention that keeps the family together and protects the children, if there are any. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. Berkeley Breathed

Who’s ‘they’? Why don’t you all get together and be yourselves? Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. Stephen King

Ah, good conversation there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. Robert South

If it were only to see her hand again I would have to follow her. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. Patrick Rothfuss

Your innocence makes me forget all shady things of this world

This is not politics, it’s to protect the innocence of children. Bob Dole

 I think that’s the real loss of innocence the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.Steve Toltz

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. Fran Lebowitz

 In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman

It’s never too late to enjoy a happy childhood. Tom Robbins

In all our lives, there is a fall from innocence. A time after which, we are never the same. Gordie LaChance

For kids are innocent and love justice, while most of us are evil and naturally prefer mercy. G.K Chesterton

 I’m interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality. Geoffrey S. Fletcher

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret, you return to the magnificence you have always been. Aberjhani

 Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning Hamilton

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you actually seem, and smarter than you think. Winnie the pooh

 An age that melts in unperceived decay, and glides in modest innocence away. Samuel Johnson

The things that make me different are the things that make me. Winnie the pooh

 He’s innocent in a lot of ways. He’s a very simple person who really doesn’t have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation. Jared Leto

It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine. Eeyore

All things truly wicked start from innocence. Ernest Hemingway

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness. Winnie the pooh

Innocence is always unsuspicious. Thomas C. Halliburton

Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach. Du Bois

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. John Updike

Kids make you want to start life over. Muhammad Ali

Whoever kills an innocent life it is as if he has killed all of humanity. Surat Al Maidah

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploration. Mason Cooley

 Inside this innocent look is a twisted mind

Innocence is so much more powerful than experience. Alejandro Gonzalez

 Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost. John Milton

The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of the world. Kurt Chambers

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. Fran Lebowitz

It takes a very long time to become young. Pablo Picasso

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. W. H. Auden

All things truly wicked start from innocence. Ernest Hemingway

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene

Only children believe they are capable of everything. Paulo Coelho

She’s got eyes of innocence, the face of an angel, a personality of a dreamer and a smile that hides more pain than you can imagine.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Innocence is like polished armor it adorns and defends. Robert Bishop

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world. Lois Lowry

Let me fly free with an unencumbered soul of childhood innocence

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. Mahatma Gandhi

Childhood means simplicity. Looking at the world with the child’s eye  it is very beautiful. Kailash Satyarthi

 Innocence tinctures all things with the brightest hues. Edward Counsel

Children are people we should be spending a lot of time talking to, listening to, and helping because they’re new here. Deb Lewis

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. Deepak Chopra

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. Bill Vaughan

 Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. John Lydon

A child thinks that life is really beautiful and that it will become even more beautiful. It is the duty of society to fulfill that expectation. Robert Muller

 The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp

Observe your children closely: they often have fundamental approaches and answers to the mysteries of life which we have lost as adults. Robert Muller

 There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human in not having to be just happy or just sad in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time

Children are the true connoisseurs, what’s precious to them has no price, only value. Bel Kaufman

I just don’t want to die without a few scars. Chuck Palahniuk

We should all be inspired by children: they don’t care about fear and mistakes. Maxime Lagacé

The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind. Kurt Chambers

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. Bishop Desmond Tutu

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. Susan Sontag

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. Henri Frederic Amiel

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge. Publilius Syrus

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. Eberhard Arnold

 Not one of the accused pleaded guilty  all declared their innocence of all charges. Ruslan Khasanov

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff

 No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It’s the most important thing.Federico Fellini