The cup of innocence will always overflow with the liquid of experience.
The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.
Maybe I donβt really want to know whatβs going on. Maybe Iβd rather not know. Maybe I couldnβt bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
May you never become so cynical that you let a star fall without its wish.
Let us never get so jaded by the complexities of life that we forget the sweetness, pureness, innocence of love at first bloom.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence in 2009 when we started using malware as an offensive attack weapon.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.