Quotes About Naivety

Hacking people is relatively easier than hacking computers because humans are stupid and they tend to trust other humans which makes them vulnerable to each other.

Conflict is inevitable. She paused. You have to decide if you're on the side of progress... or on the side of stagnation. Kade considered that. I'm on the side of peace, he sent, and freedom. She mentally chuckled. You are so naïve.

Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts...

They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

I've never loved a character as much as I do Niska. The way she's been written is so complex, with huge amounts of light and dark. It's a really satisfying challenge to play someone who is superhuman in their intelligence and physical ability but completely naive when it comes to certain aspects of life.

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

Being naive I think is how you construct new music. When you start thinking too much what is it you're doing? You're just making an album. You're not doing brain surgery. If you take it too seriously you start taking yourself too seriously.

Now King Alexander is driving down the familiar streets, curiously unguarded, in a curiously antique car. It can be seen from his attempt to make his stiff hand supple, from a careless flash of his careful black eyes, it can be seen that he is taking the cheers of the crowd with a childish seriousness. It is touching, like a girl putting full faith in the compliments that are paid to her at a ball.

I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.

that childlike inability to distinguish what is true from what we'd like to be true.

we wish we had never known.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Intreviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

I can see there might be a positive side to this wilful averting of the eye: ignoring the bad things makes it easier for you to carry on. But ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that bad things never happen. You are always surprised by them. It surprises you that guns kill, that money corrupts, that snow falls in winter. Such naivety can be charming; alas, it can also be perilous.

But ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that bad things never happen. You are always surprised by them. It surprises you that guns kill, that money corrupts, that snow falls in winter. Such naivety can be charming; alas, it can also be perilous.

it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

All the world knows it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.