Quotes About Naivety

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Fools are without number.

Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

Only imbeciles are innocent.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.

Children never do understand their own childishness.

You don't know shit from apple butter.

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you. In every sense. Imperilment is bottomless. As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared.

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.

I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt.

They wouldn't do it. They're kids. If they understood risks, they wouldn't join uprisings and march in the streets and the world would be a simpler place. Not a better one, of course. But simpler.

TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.

She'd liked Pearl. Pearl hadn't meant to Tazer Archie. Well, she meant to Tazer him, but how was she supposed to know that her then-boyfriend was going to drag Archie away, suspend him naked from meat hooks and try to hack him up with an ax? Hadn't everyone had a bad boyfriend at some point? Pearl had made some bonehead choices, but she had a good heart.

I was sexually assaulted at seventeen. I was naïve and I didn't understand it. Anxiety became a deep part of my life, and it almost pulled me under. Trudging onward was all I could do. I've made peace with it.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

The Emperor's New Clothes.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than one season. I thought we would be different. We were, I guess, but not in the way I thought. I truly believed that we would never let each other go. The young are so dumb.

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find somebody ready to be deceived.

innocent enthusiasm and love can sometimes cause great dangers.

Comment, avec votre bon sens, pouvez-vous être aussi loyalement aveuglée sur la sottise d'autrui ? Il n'y a que vous qui ayez assez de candeur pour ne voir jamais chez les gens que leur bon côté...

Ihr seid beide so nachgiebig, daß ihr nie zu einem Entschluß kommen werdet, so gutgläubig, daß euch alle Dienstboten übers Ohr hauen, und so freigebig, daß ihr ständig eure Einkünfte übersteigen werdet.

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.