Naive Quotes

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A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, 'This is the only area where I let down.' Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.