Quotes about naive

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

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

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

A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

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

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

Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.

I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.

There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and exposed—the perfect environment for a soul-sucking, heart-crushing burst.

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.

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life

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.

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.

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.

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first finger-bowl.The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. Mrs Guinea never said anything, and it was only much later, when I told a debutant I knew at college about dinner, that I learned what I had done.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

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

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

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.

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.

As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer you. When you disrespect it, push it away, play games with it, deny it, ignore it, are casually indecisive about it or hold it like a last resort, God gives it away to someone else that will cherish it more.

It's so frustrating that everybody rags on eighties music, when there's a lot of terrific stuff out there," he said. "There's no irony to it. It's not afraid to just be happy or enthusiastic or earnest. Or to have melody. Sure, you can blame it for being naive, but isn't that refreshing next to the whiny navel-gazing that came after it?

Tacitus laughed at the Germanic tribes who tried to stop a torrent with their shields, but it is no less naive to believe in planetary migration or to believe in the establishment by purely human means of a society fully satisfied and perfectly inoffensive and continuing to progress indefinitely. All this proves that man ,though he has inevitably become less naive in some things, has nonetheless learned nothing as far as essentials are concerned; the only thing that man is capable of when left t

Sounds naive respecting someone who doesn't give a shit about you.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.

...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naïve.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

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

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Politics preys on people's naivety

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

Normative mind tends to be naive.

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)

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

You are so sweet. This is unbelievable. Some schmo talks to you every two weeks, buys you a meal, during which he talks about himself, dry-humps you, touches your hand once and you think he smells like roses. Maybe he is a white knight on a steed, who will carry you off into the future, so you can live happily ever after and, finally, maybe get it on.

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.