Naive Quotes

345 Naive quotes by 319 unique authors

If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such… — Thomas Berry
Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do. — Alan Cohen
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. — Neil Postman
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not… — Pope Francis
Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as… — Marianne Williamson
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive. — Marianne Williamson
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. — Stanley Crouch
A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid. — Adolf Hitler
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. — Jonathan Frakes
It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in… — Kim Campbell
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive… — Max Weber
I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth. — Roy Keane
It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if… — Dylan Moran
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories… — Lidia Yuknavitch
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it. — Amy Sedaris
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the… — Ludwig von Mises
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational… — Umberto Eco
Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just… — William Julius Wilson
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions… — Mark Twain
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the… — Serj Tankian
Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his… — H. L. Mencken
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the… — Jean Baudrillard
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. — Gerald Brenan

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