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
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
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
“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
“[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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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