Charles Peguy Quotes

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Great men have the nature of a child.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

Maturity is highly overrated.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

I never had innocence.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

To the pure all things are pure!