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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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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Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
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...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.
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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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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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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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If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.
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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
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Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
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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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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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Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
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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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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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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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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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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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The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
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Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open–hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child–like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child–like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.
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Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
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So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.
