“I want to set the record straight." "The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984 ? They rewrite the… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete,… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“We plunge into love with a naivete that ignores all prior humiliations. Thank goodness, I guess. Because we never learn, we reach… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“Reason in this newer philosophy took its starting point with childish naivete in its own integrity and trustworthiness.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
“All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“What is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be… — Tzvi Freeman Copy Share Image
“How are babies made?" Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“He slipped off her clothes and covered her eyes with one hand, a blindfold of naivete she wore willingly, relishing his embrace… — Angela Panayotopulos Copy Share Image
Naivete is the real reason I applied to Juilliard. I wanted to study drama and not musical theater because I have a… — Gayle Rankin Copy Share Image
At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you… — Jeff Van Gundy Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering… — Ian Williams Copy Share Image
“The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth.… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
“..en av os bondestudenter som er blit skadet indvortes ved å bli overflyttet til fremmed jord og atmosfære, han er en liten… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
