Innocence Quotes
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.
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I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.
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An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.
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What an age of innocence it was, the Watergate era... way back in the halcyon days when the US could be contrasted with totalitarian regimes on matters of surveillance.
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It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.
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If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you.
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
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Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
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For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.
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I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will
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Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
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The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The young man smiled—certainly a very personable young man—and explained that the light was no longer strong enough to do any more. Again in this explanation did he call me gnädiges Fräulein, and again was I touched by so much innocence. And his German, too, was touching; it was so conscientiously grammatical, so laboriously put together, so like pieces of Goethe learned by heart.
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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
