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Quotes About Naive

Laurel and Hardy are among my strongest influences, and I think they're perfect examples of two naive, kid-like characters that are still funny today. In fact, they're a lot like SpongeBob and Patrick, walking around in their own little world and causing a fine mess.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
~ Hanna Rosin
I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.
~ Rebecca Ferguson
If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume we would not suffer too.
~ Ant McPartlin
You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.
~ Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
I like that the two roles are similar yet so different at the same time. Geu Rin comes from a broken family and has to pick up the broken pieces in order to move forward. There's some kind of sadness in her. Deok Sun, on the other hand, is just very cheerful. The word I would use to describe her is naive. She is young and free.
~ Lee Hye-ri
Anyone would be naive to think people were not aware with what was going on about ball maintenance. I dont think Cricket Australia wanted to go there. They did not want to go any deeper than that superficial example of ball-tampering.
~ Adam Gilchrist
Naive Heyst! As if anybody would . . . Nobody amongst us had any interest in men who went home. They were all right; they did not count any more. Going to Europe was nearly as final as going to Heaven. It removed
~ Joseph Conrad
It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed—to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!
~ Joyce Carol Oates
He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.
~ Walter J. Moore
Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.
~ Wil McCarthy
Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power. It was lies, deceptions, self-interest, and self-aggrandizement: suitable work only for the mad and the venal and the naïve.
~ David Axton
Si suponemos que nuestras ideas éticas serán compartidas por todos los pueblos y en todas las épocas, somos simplemente ingenuos.
~ James Rachels
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.
~ James Rollins
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
~ James Thurber
She kept the books a week, and then returned them on a mail day with the postboy. She also sent a note saying: 'I wish you would let me have some books about the emancipation of women.' It was only after the man had left that the request struck her as naïve, a hopeless self-exposure; and she could hardly bear to open the parcel which was sent to her.
~ Doris Lessing
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.
~ Douglas Adams
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams
He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams
The words seem oddly dated, don't they? It all sounds rather naïve and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.
~ Douglas Adams
There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams
Well, you're obviously being totally naive, of course,' said the girl. 'When you've been in marketing as long as I have you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We've got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.
~ Douglas Adams
He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams
he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams