Naive Quotes

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

Strength, Courage, Woman

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt Cobain

Busy, Acting, Here

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

Wise, Stupid, Forget

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio

Change, Peace, Live

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

True, Genius, Bound

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

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
Amy Adams

Positive, Attitude, Stupid

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson

Nothing, Used, Behind

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Mason Cooley

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
Thom Yorke

War, Stupid, Others

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire

Life, Beauty, Peace

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Jonathan Carroll

Time, Hope, Heart

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Work, Today, Past

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Tia Carrere

Why, Tough, Taken

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.
Johnny Rotten

Good, Sympathy, Nice

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
Eddie Izzard

Government, Everyone, American

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
Julius Erving

Life, Change, Off

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young

Saying, Young, Away

I'm incredibly naive.
Christina Ricci

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.
Stephenie Meyer

Bad, Through, Understand

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash

Children, Parents, Oh

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber

Breeding, Amused, Burgundy

When you are young, you are a little naive.
Maria Sharapova

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Jim Garrison

Money, Travel, Lie

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.
Andrew Eldritch

Fun, Evening, Bit

Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.
Steve Brown

Time, Good, Game

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
Tony Campolo

Religion, Nature, Human

I'm not big on women looking naive.
Alexander McQueen

Women, Big, Looking

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Pretty, Young, Off

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Time, Bad, Goal

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