Quotes About Naivety

We are all so luxuriously stupid when things are good in our life.

In short, man was often just plain stupid.

aren't ready to be specific." Tia said, "Adam wouldn't steal Mike's prescription pads. He knows better." Hester just gave her flat eyes. Tia realized how naïve her protestations sounded. "You

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.

In today's world we are taught to fear the truth, to believe it always hurts. We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.

I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence once lost, is lost forever.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.

They sat quietly, both thinking of Marty Gray, and of all the bad things that can happen to young girls who are shy and good and obedient. The secret keepers. The easily led.

Miranda was nineteen. Her experience with men consisted of Winston and himself. Both of whom had heretofore been brotherly figures. The poor girl must be confused as hell. Winston had suddenly decided that she was Venus, Queen Elizabeth, and the Virgin Mary all rolled into one,and Turner had all but forced himself on her. Not exactly an average day in the life of a young country miss

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

I think there's an innocence to me.

SpongeBob is an innocent, and people respond to an innocent. I don't think it matters if you're young or old.

The artificial is always innocent.