Na Ve Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two… — Alexander McQueen
We are not naÃ¯ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their… — Jean Rostand
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naÃ¯ve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me… — Anais Nin
Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts on the part… — Don Berliner
Maybe it's naÃ¯ve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can… — David Byrne
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still… — Eddy Merckx
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions.Â A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would… — Nelly
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
To show mercy is not naÃ¯ve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...… — Rick Yancey
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naÃ¯ve mind... — Terence McKenna
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naÃ¯ve - because art takes us and… — Toni Morrison
We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later… — Lionel Trilling
The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing,… — Charles Eisenstein
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naÃ¯ve faith, requires… — Reinhold Niebuhr
I was once naÃ¯ve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug… — A. N. Wilson
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic… — Guillermo del Toro
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… — Flannery O'Connor
I love acting and I know that's a clichÃ©, but I didn't really, I was very naÃ¯ve when it came to the whole being recognized… — Kit Harington

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