Quotes About Naivety

I recognize the person that wanted to help people, working hard - naively maybe - to make the world a better place. But I don't recognize the person who was drinking the proverbial Kool-Aid.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled.

Q: What is the definition of innocence? A: A nun working in a condom factory, thinking she's making sleeping bags for mice.

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with hell following after.

Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

Los niños... A veces son mucho más astutos que los atontados y pesados adultos.)

It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is, she said. Illusion? He frowned. Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism? I am not cynical, she said. But no, I could not go back.

There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

He was only twelve, and understood that his experience of the world was limited, but one thing he was quite sure of: when someone said trust me, they were usually lying through their teeth.

The little ones are the only good human beings.

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.

That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.

It does sound too easy, doesn't it? But if a man keeps saying, "I want you," a naive girl is drawn in by the ego-trip of her own desirability. The man need not be particularly attractive in himself. It's the girl's vulnerability which traps her. A student from a co-ed school would laugh it off unless she was truly attracted

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon ' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive

Our own foreign policy was a factor in aggravating international disorder through its sincere but naive endeavor of curing the evils of the world by spreading representative institutions in the elemental sense to areas where the existential conditions for their functioning were not given.

We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth!

The less you know, the more soundly you sleep.