Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old innocent quotes, innocent sayings, and innocent proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.William Cowper
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The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.Clint Eastwood
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.Graham Greene
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The innocent and the guiltless may not ask the apologies since one has not, even the clue of it.Ehsan Sehgal
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.Mignon McLaughlin
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The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of mankind.Kurt Chambers
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Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocenceJoe Hill
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.Robert Browning
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.Graham Greene
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Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.Anatole France
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.Voltaire
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Innocence, once lost, can never be regained; Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.John Milton
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.Robert South
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Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.John Updike
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There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.Anonymous
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Innocence tinctures all things with brightest hues.Edward Albert Counsel
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The artificial is always innocent.Frank O'Hara
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.Thomas C. Haliburton
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Innocence is a language only mother nature teaches.Jasmina Siderovski
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Innocence is its own defense.Benjamin Franklin
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One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.Jodi Picoult
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We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.Leonard Peltier
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.Albert Camus
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Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.Deepak Chopra
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.William Butler Yeats
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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.Mahatma Gandhi
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Innocent people have been drawn into someone else's conflict.Mark Wiley
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Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.J.K. Rowling
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There's always a wild side to an innocent face.Anonymous
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.John Lydon
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Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.Walter Lippmann
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.Stephen King
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.Josh Billings
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.Sir Willam Blackstone
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet— when they do, their victims lie strewn around.Elizabeth Bowen
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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.Archibald MacLeish
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When you've known innocence, when you've seen it sleep at your side, you never quite forget it. It changes you.Jeanne Moreau
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I was the perfect dupe. I believed everything anybody ever told me. I was full of the highest hopes and the most unbelievable innocence.Oskar Werner
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The innocent have nothing to fear.Lynn Weil
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A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.Roman Proverb
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An innocent heart suspects no guile.Portuguese Proverb
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Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.Polish Proverb
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No protection is so sure as that of innocence.Roman Proverb
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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.Horace
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What is a stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?Shakespeare
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Innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.Bulwer
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There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.Southern
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To be innocent is to be not guilty, but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.Penn
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.N.P. Willis
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O, innocence, the sacred amulet against all the poisons of infirmity, and all misfortunes, injury, and death.Chapman
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Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.Mad Necker
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Against the head which innocence secures, insidious malice aims her darts in vain; turned backward by the powerful breath of heaven.Johnson
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The smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.Robert Green Ingersoll
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You can't blame the innocent; they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them.Graham Greene
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What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.Marianne Moore
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Time that is intolerant / Of the brave and the innocent, / And indifferent in a week / To a beautiful physique.W.H. Auden
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There are no innocent bystanders. What were they doing there in the first place?William S. Burroughs
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Avoid killing the innocent child inside you. It could also result in the death of 'the opportunity of learning.Mitali Bajaj
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He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.Proverbs 28:20
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We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not innocent.Ronald Reagan
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The protective mystical force of the innocent will kill whoever speaks ill about him or her.Yoruba Proverb
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Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind, / Whose words are images of thoughts refined, / Is my soul's pleasure.John Keats
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A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!Byron