Quotes About Naivety

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.

Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers are written by second-class writers whose psychological brew contains a touch of naïvety, a touch of sentimentality, the story-telling gift, and a mysterious sympathy with the day-dreams of ordinary people.

When a well-educated young man first enters society he is liable to commit many errors which the world term childish, simply because he has not yet learned how childish grown men really are

It was a good time. To the pure all things are pure…

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

I think about moving across the country, barely having the money to do it, it gives me so much anxiety. I think there's something to be said for just not knowing, being a little naive, and just flying by the seat of your pants, because it is a big thing, it's really stressful.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.

We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.

Sorry . . . I can't help stupid.

but maybe that was the thing about being a kid. Either you didn't know when things were just too dangerous, or you didn't know enough to let the danger stop you from doing them.

Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid. In

Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid.

If you are thinking, My co-workers and I don't compete, we are one big happy family, brace yourself for a cold splash of reality. You can establish friendships in the workplace, but work at times will be a game with winners and losers. If you don't realize that, you are being naïve, and you are going to get hurt and taken advantage of.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

Trust one fool to see no flaws in another!

But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.

I'm trying to decide if you're hopelessly naïve or I'm a confirmed cynic.

Troeltsch's so dumb he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist.

This is what I get for passing down priceless fruits of hard experience to somebody who still thinks it's exciting to shave.

Postmodern irony and cynicism has become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving.

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

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.