“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
“(...) a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance often accelerates us. So much of what we know of motion propelled by what we don’t know about impact.” — Michael Schmeltzer Copy Share Image
“Kalian ingin menghentikan kriminalitas tetapi tidak tahu apa-apa tentang dunia kriminal? Itu naïf namanya.” — Adham T. Fusama Copy Share Image
“They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow. — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a little naivety goes a long long way!" (I said that)” — Robert Greenfield 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“But someone may ask, is there any real reason why these sages, whether Buddhist or Stoic, should not recapture the soul of… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“I have not seen Bly since the day I left it, and I daresay that to my older and more informed eyes… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental --- for the externals, --- no eye for the hod… — Joseph Conrad 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
“Behren's work resists easy classification. It is part expedition journal, part museum installation, part allegorical theatre. At the centre of the evolving… — Christina Jansen Copy Share Image
“The Triumph of Goodness" If only the reality was like cartoons like teenager books and stories or like the countless movies and… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of naiveté if the accompanying… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
