Quotes About Naivety

The nonreader in our culture wants to believe. He is the "one born every minute". The world is so vastly confusing and baffling to him that he feels there has to be some simple answer to everything that troubles him.

She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She was so easy to hurt, to tease. And when she teased, it was like a caress.

It was no good my knowing that old men have conned young ones like that ever since time began. I still fell for it, as one still falls for the oldest literary devices in the right hands and contexts.

We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.

Your innocence makes me forget all shady things of this world.

Only the criminally stupid or naïve assumed that the other side was less clever.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

I miss being a kid cause I trusted everyone. Didn't suspect anyone of doing any wrong.

In any case, Swann was blind not only to the gaps in Odette's education, but also to her poverty of mind. Indeed, when she told one of her silly stories, he would listen to her full of an obliging, cheerful, even admiring attentiveness, which could be explained only by his finding her still sexually arousing;

I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.

What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food.

Back then I was so young and naive, I couldn't tell from the wrong to the right. Now I'm living a life with regrets and wanted to start all over again.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.