(486 quotes found)
“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"”
Howard Ikemoto
“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”
Lise Hand
“Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance”
Proverb
“In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve the Guru and obey him, without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth, he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security; he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care; he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time, he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it”
Publilius Syrus
“The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.”
Irving Howe
“No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Innocence is always unsuspicious.”
Thomas C. Haliburton
“Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.”
Francois Rabelais
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
