Quotes About Naivety

I was too young to know how to love her.

It is easy for optimism to be undermined and demolished, however, if it is naive, and for cynicism to arise in its place. But the act of peering into the darkness as deeply as possible reveals a light that appears unquenchable, and that is a profound surprise, as well as a great relief.

Naive, harmless people usually guide their perceptions and actions with a few simple axioms: people are basically good; no one really wants to hurt anyone else; the threat (and, certainly, the use) of force, physical or otherwise, is wrong. These axioms collapse, or worse, in the presence of individuals who are genuinely malevolent

It is for such reasons that trust is vital: but trust of the mature and tragic sort. A naive person trusts because he or she believes that people are essentially or even universally trustworthy. But any person who has truly lived has been—or has—betrayed.

Tolkien's Bilbo must become a thief before he can become a hero. He must incorporate his monstrousness, so that he can supersede his naive harmlessness, before he is tough enough to face the terrors that confront him.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history

The person of faith is not a person who has been born, luckily, with a good digestion and sunny disposition. The assumption by outsiders that Christians are naive or protected is the opposite of the truth: Christians know more about the deep struggles of life than others, more about the ugliness of sin.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I am too childlike to be immature.

When you're young, you're immortal, or so you think, and you never think there will be problems ahead.

Die Liebe macht offenbar kindisch.

I just want to make it clear first of all that I do not have the AIDS disease. I plan on being here for a long time. Life is going to go on for me and I'm going to be a happy man. But sometimes you're a little naive and think 'it's not going to happen to me. It only happens to other people.' But here I am saying that it can happen to anybody. Even me, Magic Johnson.

I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'

Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, 'Wouldn't that be cool if someday I were able to do this for a living?' But it was such a fluke, and it really all took me by surprise and I just held on for dear life. I really wasn't prepared. I really went into it naively with no experience.

Another word for poverty of choice is innocence.

inconnus, s'enthousiasmait pour une oeuvre ou pour un homme, et, s'obstinant alors, ne regardant à rien, multipliait les courses, les correspondances, les réclames. Il se croyait fort honnête, et, dans son besoin d'expansion, racontait naïvement ses indélicatesses.

Il obéit donc ; mais la hardiesse de son désir protesta contre la servilité de sa conduite, et, par une sorte d'hypocrisie naïve, il estima que cette défense de la voir était pour lui comme un droit de l'aimer.

Frédéric, habitué aux grimaces des bourgeoises provinciales, n'avait vu chez aucune femme une pareille aisance de manières, cette simplicité, qui est un raffinement, et où les naïfs

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

Într-o lume de neînÈ›eles, mereu schimb?toare, masele atinseser? punctul în care puteau crede, în acelaÈ™i timp, orice sau nimic, când ele gândeau c? totul este posibil È™i c? nimic nu e adev?rat. Amestecul era destul de ciudat, întru-cât demonstra sfârÈ™itul iluziei c? naivitatea era o sl?biciune a spiritelor primitive neb?nuitoare, iar cinismul reprezenta viciul unor minÈ›i superioare È™i rafinate.

She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years old.

But he hasn't got anything on, a little child said.