The mind which is alert, watchful, which is free of fear, is an innocent mind; and it is only the innocent mind that can understand reality, truth or God.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
—Edward Gibbon
I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a part of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible.
—Donna Lynn Hope
I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything.
—Laura Wiess in Leftovers
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
—Kin Hubbard
Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.
—Alice Miller
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
—Robert Browning
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
—Lord Salisbury