Quotes About Naivety

They can't help it. They know nothing

innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

He locked his cabin door behind him and stood against it, trembling, laughing in hysterical disbelief. Dammit, he'd studied everything about Naismith, everything. This couldn't be happening. With friends like this, who needs enemies?

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Of course,' the inspector remarked, with the naïvety of the corrupt, 'if he had really been rich, he would not be in prison.

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.

and if a fool is believed then those who believe him are even bigger fools.

Henry is a youngling

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

INFANCY, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, Heaven lies about us. The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another!

People are far more stupid than that.

Confiar, una palabra solo apta para idiotas

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Falling in love in high school is like thinking you can fly a 747 because you know how to fly a kite.

Your have a purity I've lost, pet. But in some ways, the important ones, you're not naive. You understand the darkness without ever having been in it.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

Como é que tu achas que é o mundo das pessoas crescidas? -Não sei dizer. Sou um rapaz - disse, com muita sinceridade. - São muito traiçoeiras, sir? -------------~ Mr. Ducie (professor) e Maurice p.13, MAURICE - E.M. FORSTER, Livros Cotovia, 1989, esgotado, tradução: Jorge Ayres Roza de Oliveira

A fool and his money are soon parted.

what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up

You said that what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.