Naive Quotes

345 Naive quotes by 319 unique authors

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive… — Bertrand Russell
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of… — Christopher Hitchens
It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I… — Christina Hendricks
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one. — Steven Pinker
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national… — Sarah Palin
The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll… — John Landis
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his… — Twyla Tharp
From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. — Albert Schweitzer
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in… — Neal A. Maxwell
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything… — Gore Vidal
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything… — Gore Vidal
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.… — Murray Bookchin
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and… — Robert Anton Wilson
Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop.… — Bram Cohen
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. — Imre Lakatos
The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive. — Scott Belsky
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that… — Douglas Sirk
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the… — John Deacon
I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very… — Grace Slick
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. — Gloria Steinem
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the uncertainty in the… — Kenneth Arrow
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it. — Bill Joy
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. — Wilhelm Wundt
Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership. — Ralph Marston
There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire… — Hugh Downs

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