“(...) a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are… — George Best Copy Share Image
Only a weak person will take advantage of your kindness. And mistake it for naivety. That's because once upon a time, they… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
“A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Innocent like the first dreams A few words dropped on the paper; Contaminated they were by the surrounding air, Fame swarmed, naivety… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
“Don't be so naive that you follow anyone who has light in their hand, because anyone who tells you to follow them… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“They say it's a disorder when life is too sweet, and no, I am not sixteen. Not anymore and maturity has rankled… — Haig Moses Copy Share Image
“Only experience can lead you to what it is you want and sometimes, I wish I didn’t have so much experience. Now… — Sarah Michelle Lynch Copy Share Image
“She marvelled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him! She deemed it her crime most to be repented… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“If he must curse Weissmann, then he must also curse himself. Weissmann's cruelty was no less resourceful than Pökler's own engineering skill,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“I guess she thought if I stayed with her or if I got in touch with her while I was here, I… — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It was pretty absurd travelling up through Peru to arrive in Iquitos, hoping to find an expedition! Life does not work like… — Gordon Roddick Copy Share Image
One thing that continues to worry me is Phil's naivety. It's lovely in ways, but as his dad I don't want him… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
“(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
