Innocence actually means a state that is unblemished by guilt, malice or any other wicked intentions, the state of being sinless and chaste. This is why law considers children and mentally disabled people as innocent. Innocence also means lack of personal experience, however, as is very often the case, innocence should not be misconstrued as ignorance. One should not forget that the word innocence has a positive connotation to it. Check out these famous incorruptibility quotations and sayings to get a better insight into it.
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Innocence Quotes
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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure,
a messenger of peace and love,
a resting place for innocence on earth,
a link between angels and men.
 Martin Farquhar Tupper |
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz |
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Frederick Buechner |
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Germaine Greer |
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi |
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. Skinner |
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin |
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell |
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid |
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne |
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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John Donne |
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee |
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen |
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I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
Elizabeth Taylor |
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino |
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras |
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The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
Eddie Murphy |
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Abdul Kalam |
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft |
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
Bram Stoker |
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
R. A. Butler |
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I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.
Saddam Hussein |
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
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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.
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift |
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The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim Henson |
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
Patti Smith |
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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.
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There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
John Irving |
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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Charles Spurgeon |
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May |
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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry B. Adams |
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We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell |
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I am 100% innocent and the charges against me are 100% false.
Sean John Combs |
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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He's an 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 |
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael |
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Jean Piaget |
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson |
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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
Bill Williams |
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Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
Tom Brokaw |
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The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collar bone and incredible contusions - "It wasn't Jezebels fault Dad.
Pam Brown |
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Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
Cat Stevens |
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He maintains his innocence, so there is nothing I can say by way of mitigation.
Bill Taylor |
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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Penelope Leach |
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Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...
Nicholas Gordon |
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You're just immersed in your own narrow-minded thrill of the speed, and you just disregard all of the consequences to yourself and the innocent people on the roadways.
Philo |
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Like An Innocent Boy At First Love, I Would Awaken My Devotee In Radiant Chambers.
Adi Da Samraj |
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I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
Fred Melamed |
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A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.
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