Naive Quotes
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.
You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.
We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.
I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.
I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.
I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.
Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?
I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe
The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.
I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.
I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous
Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
