Naive Quotes

345 Naive quotes by 319 unique authors

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Unknown Author
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so… — Nathaniel Branden
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive. — Ogden Nash
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of… — Ludwig Quidde
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of… — Robert McNamara
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen
I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit — Duncan Sheik
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all… — Vera Nazarian
The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didnt think about it coming along with the… — Paul Bettany
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic. — Unknown Author
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of… — Bruno Bauer
Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been… — Brian Reynolds
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so… — Vladimir Bukovsky
If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive. — John de Ruiter
Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice… — Dalai Lama
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman. — Bjarne Stroustrup
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life… — Paul Wesley
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. — Dominique de Menil
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. — Steven Pinker
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their… — Atul Gawande
She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season. — Shiri Appleby
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of… — Robert E. Sherwood
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against… — David Bronstein
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here… — Michael Arditti
After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think? — Andy Warhol

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