Quotes About Naive

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

It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.

But Henry was pretty irritating himself, with his steadfast way of remaining naive, as though life were just what a Sears catalogue told you it was: everyone standing around smiling.

My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

J'aimais les peintures idiotes, dessus de portes, décors, toiles de saltimbanques, enseignes, enluminures populaires ; la littérature démodée, latin d'église, livres érotiques sans orthographe, romans de nos aïeules, contes de fées, petits livres de l'enfance, opéras vieux, refrains niais, rythmes naïfs.

Comme elle vous trouve immensément naïf, Tout en faisant trotter ses petites bottines, Elle se tourne, alerte et d'un mouvement vif.... Sur vos lèvres alors meurent les cavatines...

I'm not naive and realise it doesn't make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time does come when you have to say someone isn't good enough and has to go. But commentators like Richie Benaud have shown that criticism can be made in a constructive or humorous way.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

I'm gullible.

I was so gullible as a kid.

Sometimes I'm gullible; sometimes I'm not.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

While it's important to be open-minded, we don't have to be naive. Although Iran claims they are developing nuclear capability only for peaceful purposes, it's most difficult to believe them when taking a step back to assess the big picture of Iran's threats and actions.

I don't think women have ever thrown themselves at me, although I'm quite naive about these things, or was when I was available.

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.

Nu eu sunt bufonul, ci societatea monstruos de cinic? ?i naiv de incon?tient? care pretinde c? este serioas? numai pentru a-?i ascunde mai bine nebunia. Eu, în schimb - nu sunt nebun.

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.

The naive idea that, through education, one can transmit culture to all of society is destroying 'higher culture', because the only way of achieving this universal democratization of culture is by impoverishing culture, making it ever more superficial.

Los errores de Ortega no fueron los de un cobarde ni los de un oportunista; a lo más, los de un ingenuo que se empeñó en encarnar una alternativa moderada, civil y reformista en momentos en que ésta no tenía la menor posibilidad de concretarse en la realidad española.

many believers naively assume that real Christianity is alive and well and respected by the majority of our people. Brace yourself. It's an illusion.

John Templeton's views are regarded by some as eccentric, naive, or dangerously anti-science but by many others as thoughtful, positive, and in today's increasingly unhinged world, vitally necessary.

I'm not gullible, I'm trusting.

I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette.