Quotes About Naivety

I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

If you have hung yourself out to dry, it means that you are still wet behind the ears.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

Honey, you are a baby in this world and don't know how to howl yet.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice

Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance and magical thinking,

urban deprivation, the condition of being so sophisticated that you plumb the nature of most other people's experience out of your life like waste. Your attitudes are so glib and self-assured and automatic, you lose the necessary naivety that is living. That way, you eat everything and taste nothing.

Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die." I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

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

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

You know you're dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn't help to cover up a murder.

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Ignorance is a place where innocence is not always a virtue.

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