“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an… — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwillingness to learn one’s lesson. It is… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place,… — Catherine Keener 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
For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn't think anyone would want to do anything to… — Margo Price Copy Share Image
I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do… — Rebecca Ferguson Copy Share Image
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary,… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them. — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
We would rent this old van and drive anywhere we could get in 10-to-12 hours. We scraped by with little money, but… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain:… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Was it a risky move? Yes, but at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going… — Michael Sam Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
