Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
Honore de Balzac
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage.
Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de Saint-Evremond
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Anatole France
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
Jean Baudrillard
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast