Quotes About Naivety

You can't fool children.

When I did my first film, I didn't have formal training; I didn't work under any director. I really didn't know how to make a film.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées »

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Devilish in my innocence.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I've gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.

The original idea of being anonymous - it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we'd be touring or to what extent this was going to be a professional operation. That regimen is very hard to live by. What I hadn't foreseen was the fans and their willingness to embrace that and play along.

Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of 'good purge' is extremely naive.

'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.

In summer of 2008, I meet a guy named Michael Seibel. And Michael Seibel says, 'There are these people called angels, and they'll give you money.' The first thing I thought is, 'I can't believe this guy believes in angels.' That's how naive I was.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

Muchos, en su optimismo unidimensional, creyeron ingenuamente que la izquierda había llegado al poder.

Buvau jaunas, jaunesnis nei maniau. Ir vis d?lto mano naivumas buvo jau senas ir be iliuzij?. Ties? pasakius, jis amžinas: ?žvelgiu j? kiekvienoje naujoje kartoje, pradedant 1947 met? Sen Žermen de Pr? "žiurk?mis" ir baigiant Kalifornijos beat generation , pas kuriuos kartais apsilankau, nes man smagu kitose vietose ir kituose veiduose atpažinti grimasas, kurias darydavau dvidešimtmetis.

You can't fix stupid!

Religious enthusiasm among students is now an embarrassment; belief in the authority of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ is treated as naivety to be enlightened rather than life to be nourished. Scholars in the arts, letters, and sciences who show signs of Christian devotion are likely to be shrugged off as simplistic and eccentric.

I don't know, but it is a me that is absolutely trusting, naif, child-like, and that me accepts all the stories, all the lies, all the treachery.

This is good news indeed, since North Koreans are now gradually getting used to the idea that their houses are highly valuable. This might help them when/if the two Koreas unify. North Korean cities are liable to be flooded with swarms of rich South Korean real estate dealers looking to take advantage of North Korean naivety in real estate matters. Hopefully, if the North Koreans learn a thing or two about the real estate trade beforehand, they will be less vulnerable to such machinations.

Is it perhaps a radiation, an emanation of this innocence, this guilelessness, grown white-hot?

schoolboy, a teenager, with a teenager's innocence and