Quotes About Naivety

Svaka nesre?a napada lakoverne iz zasede, baš kao i ljubav.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

I was single for a while and dating and... I just didn't know how to do it! I've always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

People, she believed, were for the large part leaping dumbasses.

many experts assert that this may be the most gullible and easy-to-deceive generation that has ever lived.

When Renee and I talked about it years later, we agreed on one point: We were insane. Renee always said, "If any of our kids want to get married when they're twenty-five, we'll have to lock them in the attic." We were just kids, and everybody who came to the wedding party was guilty of shameful if not criminal negligence-- look at the shiny pretty toaster, isn't it cute to see the babies playing with it in the bathtub? Jesus, people!

We were just a couple of fallen angels, rolling the dice of our lives. We'd heard all the horror stories of early marriages and fast divorces and broken hearts. But we knew none of them would happen to us, because as Dexy's Midnight Runners sang to Eileen, we were far too young and clever.

Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on her sleeve, expected too much from people, and got hurt too easily. She kept other people's secrets like a champ, but told her own too fast. She expected the world not to cheat her and was always surprised when it did.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool, Lews Therin said, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.

I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled.

He was sure now. Teela Brown had never been hurt; had never learned caution; did not understand fear. Her first pain would come as a horrifying surprise. It might destroy her entirely. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. She'd be hurt over Louis Wu's dead body.

Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence.

People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Concetta is being duped. But you should never look down on someone for trusting the wrong person. It could happen to any of us.

Ajarkan aku menjadi naif. Senaif dirimu yang masih bisa tertawa. Senaif kebahagiaan kita berdua. Karena setiap detik dikala kenyataan mulai bersinggungan. Aku rasakan sakit yang nyaris tak tertahankan. Atau ajarkan aku menjadi penipu, apabila ternyata kau merasakan sakit di dalam tawamu.

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

I loved him in a way that you really can only do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better, and doesn't want to- it's dizzy, and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.

I loved him in a way that you can really only do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to—it's dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time-only thing.

We naïvely believe that things like tables and lamps exist as such, and we fail to see that society teaches us to transform sensations into perceptions that permit us to manipulate the world around us in order to enable us to survive in a given culture. Once we have given such percepts a name, the name seems to guarantee the final and unchangeable reality of the percept.