Quotes About Naivety

Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart.

He's but a boy…with innocent eyes.

He was a rube, but he was no tourist.

Marvelous are the innocent.

I, on my part, was as naive as only a pervert can be

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

She'd been played all along. Once again, the dumb blonde. "Marco

Los dos tenían esa sabiduría libresca que oculta una sorprendente ingenuidad.

She's twenty-three, he thinks; she knows nothing about life, wasted or otherwise.

We cannot be truly peaceful unless we have the invincible quality of peace within us; a feeble or temporary peacefulness could always be disturbed. If we try to be kind and peaceful in a naive way, encountering a different or unexpected situation might interfere with our awareness of peace because that peace has no strength in it, has no character. So peace must be stable, deeprooted, and solid.

Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism.

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

Innocence and ignorance are sisters.

A promise is a comfort for a fool.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

they were yung and easily freudened..

No lo entiendes, Alex? No, creo que no lo entiendes. —¿Qué es lo que no entiendo, Jezzie? Dímelo de una vez. —Siempre estás buscando la parte buena de la gente. Pero no existe.

People have said to me, 'What have you got to be unhappy about?' It's naive and it's hurtful. That person may not appear to have anything to be unhappy about, but anxiety and depression are illnesses.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

When I started out I thought just hearing one of my records on the radio would be magical. Fortunately, that naivety has always stayed with me. Because when you've had massive success and it tapers off people lose interest in you. So you have to work even harder to generate interest.

Ernest Hemingway, also in Spain at the time, provides an illuminating contrast to Orwell. He was as politically naive as Orwell was observant, in part because his macho posing got in the way of seeing accurately.

How can well-educated, high-income people be so naive about money? Because being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing.