Quotes About Naivety

Somehow, Suzanne had remained uncorrupted; her guilelessness in talking to him was a gift of no small proportion.

If they wanted to know why she had tried to go, why were they asking about the "Islamic thoughts" in her head? Didn't they realize a naïve, broken-bird of a girl might follow a beloved brother to the very ends of the earth? Didn't they realize abused girls were easy prey for charismatic men with dubious intentions?

I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

It was so strange because I thought Washington was going to be so grown-up, and everyone was going to be so nice. Then people were saying to me, 'Watch your back in D.C.' Why? Really? I have to watch my back in D.C?

I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

Hay momentos en los que la excesiva inocencia parece tan monstruosa que se vuelve odiosa

They are but children.

Nice people were not supposed to be able to recognize certain things, because they were supposed to be so untainted that they couldn't even think about them.

These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

Ignorance, madame, pure ignorance.

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!

Such trouble, when wolves sleep. The lambs think they can play.

What farm girl dolled up in a farm dress captivates your wits not knowing how to pull her rags down to her ankles?

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

He is very short-sighted and thus walks happily through this world blind to all its ugliness. For him, daily life passes in a pleasant blur.

He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever.

Innocence is a better world.

Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it. Rhetoric, fourth century BCE (BC)