Naive Quotes

I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I feel much better suited for the job now. (on being Manchester City manager)

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.

Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

A naive dream is extremely powerful.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.

It is naive to think that success will drop into our lives like manna from heaven

Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.

Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

A terrorist is the most foolish and naïve. He is drunk with fixed false beliefs that killing his neighbors will result in going to heaven.

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love.

I think you're wrong.""Well I think you're naive, " Hayley snapped."Maybe, " Marley conceded, starting to walk away. "But I'd rather be that than a bully like you.

Either they're still naive, or stupid.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

If we weren’t already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?

The accumulation of grief over one lifetime is more then one heart can bear."Robert explained."Only the heartless could withstand more.Or the very young, those too naive to truly understand loss.

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric)

Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.

Normative mind tends to be naive.

Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them.