I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me. — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. — Jeffrey Combs Copy Share Image
“[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a… — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always unpredictable. All… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly hopeful - in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“Porque entonces era lo suficientemente atontada para no darme cuenta que aquél era uno de los infinitos hombres que nacen sólo para… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
“If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow. — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
“How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
“Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!' — Efrem Zimbalist, Jr Copy Share Image
I was a subscriber to 'Sports Illustrated' like so many of us, and I was overwhelmed by a toxic mix of naivete… — Josh Elliott Copy Share Image
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