Naive Quotes

345 Naive quotes by 319 unique authors

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive. — Larry Niven
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never… — Michael Crichton
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did… — Douglas Adams
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some… — Tom Robbins
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that… — Douglas Adams
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your… — Neil Postman
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If… — Richard Wright
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are… — Milan Kundera
We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds… — Jodi Picoult
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and… — Richard P. Feynman
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. — Lionel Shriver
I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances. — Anne Michaels
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief… — Dan Simmons
But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then? — Dan Ariely
Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. — Milan Kundera
He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. — Colum McCann
Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way… — Robert Kirkman
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only… — Tom Wolfe
We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know. — David Sheff
Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word --… — Lauren Oliver
These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic… — Nella Larsen
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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