Naive Quotes
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
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.
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.
Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.
A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.
The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.
But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?
Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.
I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.
Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.
You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.
A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!
It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition.
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
In the '60s and '70s people were a little bit more naive and trusting and got in people's cars without thinking about it.
I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.
