Naive Quotes · Page 3

If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.

— Marianne Williamson

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

— Ethan Slater

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

— Ferdinand Marcos

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

— Kurt Cobain

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

— Brit Marling

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

— Chris Coleman

My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.

— DeMar DeRozan

When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people…

— Richard Armitage

I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in…

— Damon Albarn

I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't…

— Lauren Lapkus

We've been scared from using antibiotics and antivirals out of some kind of weird sense of communal responsibility to keep bugs naive…

— Scott Gottlieb

“Children are naive, they don’t possess enough skills to be able to recognize the balance between the truth and a lie.”

— Patricia Dsouza

I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing…

— J. K. Rowling

I'd read a lot of books where the girls are in awe of the supernatural male, so I thought it was time…

— Alexandra Adornetto

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

— Amy Sedaris

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive.…

— Robbie Williams

In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out…

— Judith Martin

Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it…

— David Graeber

There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach…

— Hugh Downs

I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the…

— Joan Jett

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field…Merely think,…

— Claude Monet

The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government,…

— Ilana Mercer

“Ivanov: A naive man is a fool. But you women are clever enough to be naive so that it comes out in…

— Anton Chekhov

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

— Julia Stiles

A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.

— Adolf Hitler

“I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.”

— Ingrid Bengis

“You're beautifully naive Emmy... I don't want to change that”

— Julie Hockley

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

— Ashton Kutcher

Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.

— Sergio Marchionne

I never had to really worry about anything and I guess I was naive.

— Kyle Larson

Sometimes I'm so naive to the fact that there are such narrow minded people in the world.

— Anonymous

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

— Leo Buscaglia

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

— Steven Pinker

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

— Dale Murphy

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit

— Duncan Sheik

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

— Kathy Reichs

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

— Scott Belsky

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

— Harold Prince

“I am not naive: a servant is faithful when it is in her interest.”

— Marie Vieux-Chauvet