Quotes About Naivety

The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.

Far from a clamor for war, there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete—that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly.

The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended.

Vorbitul a tout propos ?i hors de propos dup? modelul lui Paul Sterian, Ion I. Cantacuzino sau Emil Cioran este foarte hazardat si trebuie neap?rat sus?inut de gra?ia primului, silueta impozant? a secundului sau de naivitatea teribil? a celui de al treilea.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what's going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

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

Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter?

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.

They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives.

The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind. Obed

Why, thought Ulf, should a grown man seek to defraud a gullible fish? Here is a tasty morsel—no! A concealed hook! Foolish, foolish fish...

She should not have taken any of these people at face value. She had been naive. But this conclusion, she realized, pointed unambiguously in the direction of cynicism. And she would not be a cynic. It was better to be naive, much better.

Cover hatred and fear with love and delight, and with innocent things...The proponents of confrontation, violence, the acerbic comment, laughed at the innocent things, thought them naive, considered them beneath them. How easy it was to destroy the civilised structures of the world; how easy to poison the wells.

Love has a dangerous way of simplifying, for the lovers, things that cannot be simplified. Lovers can rarely see why they cannot be allowed to love, to be together. Why not, they naively wonder, since nothing else matters?

Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.