Quotes About Naive

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

I remembered the promises we'd made to each other, me and Sarah and Simon, and I wondered if I'd been naive to think we could keep them.

Quand j'ai vu TIti et Grosminet, toute cette violence contre le pauvre chat, j'ai horreur de Titi. Il était à l'aise, lui, il taquinait le chat ; le pauvre minou, lui, ne comprenait rien et en prenait plein la tête. C'est un naïf. Titi est un salopard.

If we believe miracles cannot happen today but happened to our distant ancestors, what we really seem to be saying is not that miracles happened back then but, rather, that all those people back then were naive enough to believe they happened. It is to say that miracles never happened, but gullible people thought they did.

I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

I think kids relate to me because I have some ability to remain a little bit naive. Even during interviews. Mostly during interviews.

To Jefferson the Constitution was simply a convenience when it allowed him to do what he wanted to do, and a monarchical document when it stayed his hand. He regarded domestic government as the business of the states and foreign affairs as the business of the Executive, and he was naïve enough in those days to think that the two businesses could be kept separate.

I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards.

I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vision - I didn't really have peripheral vision or see the world and what was happening. I'm much more worldly, and I believe that I'm much more grounded in my body than I probably was when I was younger.

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.

Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians. It's inevitable that the Holocaust is part of Israeli politics.

I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.

Il n'est pas âme qui vive Qui me plaise autant que toi Si tu étais plus naive Je t'apprendrais tout ce que tu sais déja

Anyone who protested the callous treatment of the Arabs and others was dismissed or ignored as naïve.

She was waltzing in a man's arms and smiling at him and enjoying every moment and dreaming of him as he had once been—and of herself as she had once been. She was being seduced and she was allowing it to happen just as if she had no will of her own, no character or principles of her own. Just as if she were that same naive, heedless girl and he was that same flawed golden boy.

The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get us nowhere.

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat. DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE

Reason is the most naive of all superstitions.

To the public, they were either naive jihadi brides or calculating monsters. But most of the women in this book were neither passive nor predatory, and trying to pin down their degree of agency seemed to be only one line of inquiry, and certainly not the most revealing. Some collaborated or acted knowingly; some were so young that, despite the outward appearance of deliberate choice, they were not mature enough to exercise anything approaching adult judgement.

Better a wise r?nin, I decided, than a naïve samurai.