Quotes About Naivety

Trusting people, the kind who are not on their guard and do not take precautions, because it is always easy to get away with wronging them.

Innocence is very erotic.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

I've learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…

He had a good heart, he wanted to help with the cattle work, he thought he was Head of Ranch Security, but he wasn't very smart and never understood why the cowboys were mad at him all the time." (regarding the original Hank the Cowdog)

I am quite Pan-like in my naïve confidence that he will play by the rules and keep his word.

To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist.

Doar copiii ?i nebunii ?tiu s? nu mint?.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford.

The good man signed the papers with the innocence of a child who does what his mother orders without question.

Larentia, despite her extensive reading, was very ignorant about love

They were young and still starry-eyed, too naive to know that true love and happily ever after were the stuff of fairy tales—and that sometimes the line between frog and prince got pretty blurry

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As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

Big Brother' has put me off people. I thought, 'I'm gonna get a dog.' I really think I'm going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.

I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.

Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.

In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.

Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.

There is nothing blinder than a very young woman.