Quotes About Naivety

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

Puck's eyes gleamed, feral and menacing. Oh, I don't know, princess. Maybe it was because I was stupid enough to care about you. Maybe I actually thought I had a chance. Silly me, thinking that one little kiss meant anything to you.

I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

puerile passion.

He was, in fact, an immensely human figure, as talented as he was complex, at once brilliant and naïve, a passionate advocate for social justice and a tireless government adviser whose commitment to harnessing a runaway nuclear arms race earned him powerful bureaucratic enemies. As his friend Rabi said, in addition to being "very wise, he was very foolish.

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

I will say I am itching for some babyface-ness in my life.

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.

It seems that the immature mind has a regrettable tendency to believe, as actually true, that which it only hopes to be true.

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Adults always underestimate kids. They get all protective because they think we're babies.

There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

El dodo no sabía lo que era un enemigo. Y por eso, lógicamente, lo consideraron tonto.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Limpezimea excesiv? a candorii ei era aproape provocatoare, ?i, pentru moment, am avut senza?ia c? a? fi ob?inut rezultate mai satisf?c?toare dac? ar fi fost mai pu?in naiv?.

With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.