Naive Quotes · Page 4

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

I'm not naive. It's football. You're going to make mistakes.

— Saquon Barkley

“The naive fall for sweet words; the intelligent fall for sweet actions”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

— Joe Namath

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

— Stanley Crouch

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

— David Sheff

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.

— Simon Sinek

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

— Amy Sedaris

We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that…

— Valerie Plame

I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like…

— Linda Perry

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end…

— Colum McCann

We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't…

— Keren Woodward

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky…

— Andrew Breitbart

With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the…

— Paolo Nutini

When you're young and naive, so early in your career, it's, 'This is what it's like, and you go to the Super…

— Nick Bosa

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

— Anton Chekhov

“The nineteenth century was naive (February 23) because it did not know the end of the story. It did not know what…

— Eric Hoffer

Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the…

— Erma Bombeck

It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow…

— Neill Blomkamp

Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks…

— Paul Fry

When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with…

— Alex Pettyfer

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is…

— Tino Sehgal

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism…

— Max Weber

I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.

— Andy Dunn

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

— Gloria Steinem

When I debuted at NXT, I was naive, and look where it got me. I was overlooked and underestimated.

— Alexa Bliss

Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.

— Sarah Wollaston

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

— Terrence Malick

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

— Anatole France

“The naive lose it in dark woods, but seek it under the street lamps.”

— Toba Beta

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

— Laura Schlessinger

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.

— Hans Christian Andersen

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

— Joichi Ito

“We were never innocent, Kiera. How naive are you? (Kellan)”

— S.C. Stephens

When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done.

— John Peterman

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

— David Gest

I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'

— Gayle Rankin

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

— Michael Moore

I have a naive mindset where I always believe I am going to get the job done.

— Alex Caruso