Quotes About Naivety

Don't be a Pollyanna!

I discovered the whitewashed wall beneath the window slick and syrupy with an abundance of goo. Since I didn't know what masturbation was, I of course didn't know what ejaculate was. I thought it was pus. I thought it was phlegm. I didn't know what to think, except that it was something terrible.

modest, serious, chaste, loyal, naive, undiscourageable, hard-working, soft-spoken, courageous, a brilliant athlete, a beautiful, austere boy.

Really, can they be this blind? Can people be so abysmally stupid and live?

She was simpler, less fractured by life during her youth.

Boys fell for so many things you wouldn't think they'd believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid.

Fools can be trusted precisely because they are fools. Their agendas rarely intersect with your own.

Ignorance is trust. —

Rough company," Dario said. "Unsuitable for an innocent flower like you." "You sound like my uncle. One can be innocent and not be ignorant, after all.

Although man's record as a steward of the natural resources of the earth has been a discouraging one, there has long been a certain comfort in the belief that the sea, at least, was inviolate, beyond man's ability to change and to despoil. But this belief, unfortunately, has proved to be naïve.

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

how to avoid naive mistakes, how to recognize talent, how to work collaboratively, and how to ask for and make great use of expert advice.

Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable?

I had never deflowered anyone before.

I was young and dumb back in the '90s, but I had a lot of fun.

I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.

Anche l'ingenuità è vita, anzi, il vero esordio fresco e fragrante della vita.

E' strano trovare ai nostri tempi una persona ingenua. Viene voglia di guarirla da una malattia tanto adorabile.

I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

I had once been naïve enough to believe that all would be well if you lived by the rules. Good things happened to good people, blessed are the meek, et cetera, et cetera. How disillusioned I have become since then. It hurt, because I wondered now what all the discipline, repression, and suppression had been for if it had not procured me the thing I had most wanted, and it certainly did not guarantee happiness.

Amor is thirteen years old, history has not yet trod on her.

In your whole life, only in young childhood, and only if you were very fortunate, could you get a measure of innocence—a time free of knowing what will come, of what must come. Those moments, that simple engagement of only what was wonderful about being alive, that love, really, would be at the center of you forever; deep inside, you would have this tender core that believed everything would be okay.