Quotes About Naivety

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.

What a holy thing uncorrupted virginity is, I thought.

I don't understand the world." "I don't either. I wonder if anyone does. We all remain children, no matter how much time goes by. We don't understand anything.

you didn't know enough to distrust others

Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.

if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

But he was coming. He would be here soon, all sweet and brave and shattered and kind. He would come carrying and clever-fingered and oh so unaware of oh so many things. He was rough against the world, but even so...

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Denna lifted her glass in a salute. "To the gullibility of the well-educated.

do not notice the night. Perhaps some part of them does, but they are young, and drunk, and busy knowing deep in their hearts that they will never grow old or die. They also know that they are friends, and they share a certain love that will never leave them. The boys know many other things, but none of them seem as important as this. Perhaps they are right.

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.

Naivety can be a terrible thing. Jesus wept.

Why was it that the young were always convinced they had invented sex?

Pero no, Carlos no podía mentirle, no podía haberla engañado con esos ojos tan dulces. Y si lo había hecho, mejor no saber, mejor hacerse la lesa, la más tonta de las locas, la más bruta, que solo sabía bordar y cantar canciones viejas.

I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.