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Quotes About Naivety

When I was, like thirteen I thought it would be really cool to be a prostitute... I Thought It was like handsome guys would take you out on these romantic dates and you´d fuck them and then they´d pay you...
~ Daniel Clowes
When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking.
~ Agyness Deyn
When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.
~ Stephanie Beacham
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
~ Dave Eggers
How could my heart be so wrong?" "Because it was such a young heart.
~ Lorraine Heath
Cuando eres adolescente no eres intocable. Eres estúpido.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm seven,' said Pierrot, sitting up straight, mortally offended.
~ John Boyne
Expecting the world to treat you fairly just because you're a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to charge you because you're a vegetarian
~ John C. Maxwell
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
~ Unknown
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die." I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.
~ David Benioff, City of Thieves
The laws of this world are for children.
~ Frank Wedekind
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.
~ Derek Bailey
When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.
~ Gerald Green
It's a funny thing, Jan went on, she's not a child, she's not stupid, but her relationship with other people tends to be very naïve; she believes that everyone is honest and kind. Punia knows that there are bad people around her, too, she recognizes them from a distance. But she really can't believe that they may hurt
~ Diane Ackerman
Talking to Clarence can be like talking to a child, although it is much more charming in children.
~ Unknown
Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.
~ Dodie Smith
The boy is so stupid; to count to twenty-one he'd have to drop his pants.
~ Unknown
These children are so stupid; they think they are the first to discover the world.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
No obstante, los Noailles me escribieron para preguntarme si no podría encontrar algún trabajo interesante para Aldous Huxley. ¡Deliciosa ingenuidad!
~ Luis Bunuel
Children and fools speak true.
~ Unknown
That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.
~ Madeline Miller
His innocence could still frighten me.
~ Madeline Miller
When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world
~ Madeline Miller