Quotes About Naivety

Looking back, she couldn't believe she'd been so naive, so blind. She

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

You are as good-hearted as I believed," the woman said, "but you are foolish as well to take such a thing on yourself. Yet what kindhearted person does not have some foolishness about him.

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

Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

I didn't even think about good guy, bad guy when I started. I was that unfamiliar with the business.

Wisdom comes only with innocence.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot.

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the '90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford. I had no idea who these girls were! They were so gorgeous, absolutely the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.

I had no idea, really, on my first film what I was doing.

They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.

Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.

Pimple young. Giggling young. Silly young and stupid as me.