Pure Innocence Quotes

#1. The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

#2. What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence - so loving, so pure, so divine - that the sage bows and the wise man weeps at the sound of its soft singing.

Heather K. O'Hara

#3. Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.

Angelica Hopes

#4. So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

Anthony Caro

#5. 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.

William Wordsworth

#6. There's no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there's only ignorance. You think you are holding on to something pure, but you aren't. You're just ignorant. You are handicapped by everything you don't yet know.

Eleanor Catton

#7. This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow.

Gena Showalter

#8. Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

May Sarton

#9. There's nothing better for the inside of a person then than the outside of a horse.

Winston Churchill

#10. Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Freddie Mercury

#11. It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Anais Nin

#12. It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Aristotle.

#13. The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

Nancy Hale

#14. Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

Rajneesh

#15. In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

Lawren Harris

#16. If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

William Godwin

#17. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Selena Kitt

#18. We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.

Monica Crowley

#19. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Lois Lowry

#20. On the road you can really be more regular about it and work it into daily routines. There's no town that doesn't have a gym. And if you find one that actually doesn't, you can go to the local high school. They always have one.

Aaron Tippin

#21. Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

L.M. Montgomery

#22. Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

John Milton

#23. Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Ian McEwan

#24. I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept
similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake
similar to Kerrick.

Maria V. Snyder

#25. There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

Suzy Kassem

#26. Ego is "I"; it is your singular point of view. In innocence this point of view is pure, like a clear lens. But without innocence the ego's focus is extremely distorting.

Deepak Chopra

#27. Pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Catharine Beecher

#28. The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

Francois Mauriac

#29. Jealousy was a fat, chalk-white snake in his chest. It writhed slowly, as pure as innocence and childishly plain.
Replaceable. He was ... replaceable.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#30. And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

Kahlil Gibran