Quotes About Naivety

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't.

Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.

Innocence has a grace which intelligence lacks!

Charlotte never lied to others, so she made the classic mistake of the habitually honest—she assumed that other people did not lie to her, at least not to her face. In her world, people were innocent of deliberate deceit until proven otherwise, which was, of course, way too late. Even

Innocence has nothing to dread.

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.

Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet's just made them both more visible. That's maybe a good thing.

She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.

how ignorant he was; how childlike … He was simply beyond analysis; so simple

Acaso todavía hay mentes lo bastante ingenuas para pensar que las teorías sirven para ser creídas?

When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

I remember my first practice, from Pee Wee football when I was, like, 10, and I didn't know what was going on.

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

Never underestimate the power of stupid

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." "There's

G]ood people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic solution as the correct one, and let matters rest there. Then

Out of the mouths of babes may come gems of wisdom, but also garbage.

This kind of feigned naturalness has countless applications in daily life, where nothing is more dangerous than looking smarter than the next person; the Natural pose is the perfect way to disguise your cleverness. But if you are uncontrollably childish and cannot turn it off, you run the risk of seeming pathetic, earning not sympathy but pity and disgust.

Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive-or worse.

She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.